Failed EU should serve as a warning against a North American Union

Appointed European parliamentarians. A crumbling euro. A highly regulated and insular continent. An idea that national sovereignty is the thing of the past. This is life in the European Union (SEE: Just Another Day in Regulated Europe).

Ever since last month’s historic referendum that would see Great Britain exit the sinking European Union (EU) ship, the corporate mainstream media, the statists and the clueless millennials have all been pouting. Not only are they labeling the Brexit result as racist, they’re also urging for the referendum to be dismissed entirely and allocate any and all resources to an initiative to return to the EU.

Will it happen? It’s really unclear at this point. Those who yell the loudest usually get their way.

But whatever happens, one thing should be made clear: the EU should serve as a warning against a potential North American Union.

Indeed, many pundits, political commentators and talk show hosts like to turn it around and say that the Brexit result showcases that there are no do-overs when you make a horrible decision. HBO’s John Oliver garnered international headlines when he obscenely likened Brexit to Donald Trump. However, you can elect and re-elect statist politicians every two or four years, but the next time Britain could abandon the globalist corpse known as the EU could be in another 40 years, when it would be entirely too late to save itself.

The last time that there was serious talk of a North American Union was in the early- to mid-2000s.

Last week, Mexican President Pena Nieto, U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held their three amigos summit. During the meeting, the Mexican president stated: “The purpose of this visit is to renew our bilateral relationship, to give it new life, to find ways to advance the prosperity and competitiveness of North America.”

Whether or not this is code for wanting a North American Union is debatable. But there have been discussions in the past. This was even conceded by former Mexican President Vincente Fox, who was urged by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and President George W. Bush to quiet down.

“I proposed a ‘NAFTA Plus’ plan to President Bush and Canada’s Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to move us toward a single continental economic union, modeled on the European example,” he wrote in his autobiography Revolution of Hope, according to InfoWars. “…At summits I took every opportunity to advocate clearly for free-market policies; showing what sound economics could do to fund social justice; arguing for globalism, NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas.”

This sentiment was later echoed by CFR member and former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister John P. Manley, who wrote in 2005:

“We are asking the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada to be bold and adopt a vision of the future that is bigger than, and beyond, the immediate problems of the present. They could be the architects of a new community of North America, not mere custodians of the status quo.”

Now, logic would dictate that those on the Bremain side, whether they’re in the United Kingdom or in Canada, would support merging the U.S., Canada and Mexico into such a union. They claim such a Kafka-esque experience is a wonderful thing for all parties involved. And, again, if you don’t want such a union then you’re a racist, an idiot or both.

Since a North American Union would be modeled after the failed EU project, millions of Canadians, Americans and Mexicans would relish in the idea of integrating economic, immigration, trade policy. Someone in Quebec would be happy to rescue Mexico in the form of a bailout. Someone in Tijuana would be pleased to save the East Coast of Canada. (This is what Britons had to do: keep propping up the failed states like Greece.) Someone in Maine would be happy to know that there are a bunch of appointed statists sitting in Vancouver determining your life without any accountability.

If you wish to be philosophically consistent then a North American Union would garner your full support.

With that being said, everyone from Nunavut to Quintana Roo, should be absolutely opposed to this constantly proposed idea by all of the think-tanks, politicians and government intellectuals (God help us from the intellectuals!).

Any decentralization of power is the right move for any nation or state/province. Whether it’s secession from a corrupt and inept superstate like the EU or it’s secession from a country (SEE: 264,000 Texans want to secede from the Union following Brexit referendum), no one should ever endorse or support a continental union if they enjoy their sovereignty or freedom. As the cultures of Italy, Britain and France are completely different, the cultures of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are vastly different as well.

Brexit wasn’t a bad idea. The EU itself was a bad idea. June 23’s referendum outlines a few crucial facts: the EU has failed, continental unions are disastrous, the statists never have your interests at heart and control is the only thing the elite know.

NAFTA was bad enough. Let’s hope it isn’t expanded into a “NAFTA Plus,” which equals one step closer towards a North American Union. Let’s talk, travel and trade each without giving up our sovereignty and giving all of the globalists the power.