The key problem with the disunion of the European Union is how can such a divided people ever again act without division? Cynics like me would argue that they never could which is why the whole idealist nature of the grand EU scheme was flawed, but putting that aside here’s the thing, the crux of the matter: the two visions of the pro-EU/anti-EU camps represent such sharp differences of opinion about such hugely fundamental questions like national identity and democratic governance and fiscal policy and foreign policy etc etc that how can the side that loses the argument ever be at peace with the side that wins? Seems impossible to me - and this existential crisis does not plague the EU alone - we can see the same dynamic emerging in the US where ‘progressives’ have moved so far to the left that they have for all intents and purposes utterly detached themselves in thought and actions from the mores defining middle America - the left loves its multiculturalist poses and polemics except when it comes to the American culture that voted for Trump - that culture they despise and have no use for. How can a country or other polity overcome a divide like this? The notion of a united people laboring with common cause towards some great future seems like the dream of a magical Kingdom that exists now only in the fading memories of a better generation.
