Political rhetoric, which for centuries has succeeded in sedating audiences through superficial comfort, does not work any more, for folks like you have woken up to the requirement for new religious values in their leaders. Through media revelation and common-sense they have realised that too often truth has been stretched and false promises made in order to win their support, for power and all that comes with it. Look at any developed country in the world and you'll see political (and moral?) weakness in the system, the leaders and regularly both. Every such state has been tried for political resiliency and capableness to cope with a crisis and each one has been found wanting. They're going to be tested continually, and everytime the evidence of disfunctionality, ineptitude, or short-termist subjectivity will be more obvious to the citizens of these states who ask for enlightened, good leadership based totally on robust values, but who so regularly are disappointed . While many in the prevailing generation of politicians are well-intended, many also are defective, no congressman in government or in opposition stands tall in public opinion now except perhaps in the eyes of biased activist advocates.
If there had been a major world crisis with potential for disaster, who would you select, with trust and conviction, to steer the world through it? It must be this way, and at this time. Many EU leaders are in denial as the illusion which is the EU dream about ever-closer integration and wealth becomes more harsh. Recent statements on Greece’s future within the Eurozone were meant to reassure markets, monetary inspectors and the public but their banality had an opposite effect : observers, rightly, are talking overtly now of the chance of Greece defaulting on its debt and leaving the Eurozone, and speculating on the dramatic impact that would have on the currency and the solidity of the ECU itself as a political and business community. They are right that a big shake-up in the constitution of the EU is likely particularly as all member states are involved, wanting debt control on a large scale or suffering the results of unsustainable bank and state lending to encumbered countries.
A discomforting time lies ahead especially since the people of the nations in both camps are in revolt over the situation their leaders have brought them to, which may affect them personally. The Western european dream of prosperity for all is a little like pyramid selling – it sounds good but the reality is that the people at the very top benefit for some time and the people at the bottom of the pyramid have tiny apart from a lost investment. Nations clamoured to join the golden gravy train tempted by the promise of money, and most leaders selected to disregard the fact that stringent rules and clear understanding would have to apply to each member state. Instead, rules were overlooked and the consequences ignored, and the semblance of commercial contentment was made and sustained relatively successfully till now. Most importantly, what's been forgotten in all this is the will of the people of Europe, the EU community.
They have been given no direct say in the expansion of the ECU, in the bail-out calls, in the future of the EU Buck and the future of the EU itself. What's being decided will affect not only the worldwide structures but each Western european citizen personally, and as they feel the consequences of political incompetence and corporate gluttony in their lives they will protest. The situation is reminiscent of certain established faiths where for reasons of power and control the priest insists upon being the didactic arbitrator between man and God. It only works for a period and then man realizes he will be able to connect superbly with Spirit on his very own and determine his life for himself.
That's the semblance of the European dream, and soon Western european man will demand the privilege to self-determination in the way he chooses, not the way he is told. It may bring chaos, but change is good, however it comes about, if it comes from the heart, and is honest.