This is a difficult and rather huge topic around the creation, background, and reality of what the EU really is, which is totally different than the feel-good PR about the EU and what the public perceives about it. Unfortunately, even if you try to explain the real origins and nature of the EU, people don’t want to hear it for several reasons, a big one being that it conflicts with what they want to believe about the EU due to the propaganda and their immediate experiences and themselves even (i.e., the belief that they understand and not understanding would mean they are not smart and everyone wants to think they’re smart).

I would say it’s not that people don’t care, as a function of the low turnout, but rather that the creation of the EU was a deliberate deception in the first place. It would have never been possible to create the EU if the politicians came out and openly said “we are going to strip you of your national sovereignty and ability to self govern, and impose destruction of your culture and community on you, and you will be ruled by an unelected body of de facto dictators. However, we will do it with really nicely designed slogans and nestled in all the propaganda that makes you feel like good people”.

Abusers, groomers, narcissists, psychopaths, con artists; they never just openly state their real, true intentions and motivations.

This slow, methodical, pernicious slipping and creeping creation of the EU over generations has caused a disconnect or lack of understanding of the importance of EU elections on a practical level. There was intentionally very little emphasis on explaining that local or even national elections really don’t matter anymore in Europe once the authoritarian nature of the EU took over. You don’t point your victims in the right direction when you want to deceive and degrades them. The EU has just kind of snuck in and taken over the whole of Europe without any kind of real, legitimate popular, democratic mandate; anymore than some 1000 page TOS you agreed to by coercion and duress.

Reality is that the EU is an extremely precocious and really rather evil institution that is cloaked in all the feel-good Soma that short circuits people’s critical thinking. On an individual, personal level, it would be called love bombing that precedes or is the initial stages of an abusive relationship.

It seems with some of the emerging issues around censorship, control, authoritarianism starting to peek out from behind the veil, and the abuses all recycling the same “think of the children” type tropes; it seems people are starting to understand that the love bombing of the EU propaganda is starting to turn dark.

We shall see where it ends up, but the window for stopping full authoritarianism closing its grip around the throat of European nations and peoples to strangling them to death, is closing rapidly. Once the EU controls your money, your movement, your thinking, your identity, your speech … that’s when the beatings will start in earnest.

I don’t mean to be dramatic, but the delta of reality vs public perception is rather large and that gap needs to close extremely rapidly if the people of Europe want to survive the toxic, narcissistic, psychopathic relationship they are in with the narcissistic psychopaths called the EU.

And no, this is also a problem in the USA, although there are still some structural differences and some historical reasons why the dynamics are still a bit more challenging for the forces trying something similar in the US. That is not to say though that things are good in the USA, but that is a whole other huge topic.

An example of the same pattern, (coincidentally being pushed at the same time) is the “age verification” to protect the children” from pornography online we must restrict adults in their freedom through government oversight, approval, and verified tracking.

It’s a kind of inversion of totalitarianism, making the totalitarianism your own democratic idea, as in the case of the online age verification laws or even things like the Patriot act. Your elected representatives that you choose implemented step one of totalitarianism, so it must be right, because you would never choose someone who would do something evil, because you are not evil. It is something unnoticeable to people not familiar with how manipulative narcissistic psychopaths operate. It is also why these types of people are so gleefully fond of “democracy”, because it is their element, manipulating the masses.