And their citizens can be punished for expressing opinions!

I remember wanting to reply to one of your lamenting posts a short while back, wanted to make a "Europe is Lost" sort of sad agreement, but I never did make the post. It feels like they are trying to prepare all of you for a war that is only in the making of the minds of their globalist leaders, but what do I know. It is a sad state of affairs, as what our leaders were doing to us here in the US seems only magnified more there even now, to systematically destroy your beautiful countries and all the incredible history attached to them. The biggest assault on all your countries was most obviously to flood you with foreigners, as the greatest weapon of all to subdue targeted nations is to water down their shared identities, so that there is nothing left which all can rally around. If there is no shared identity left, there is nothing cohesive left to rally around, and that allows for your imminent subjugation. Only your own various national citizens can change that, and to do so they need to break free of the new ideals pummeled into their brains. To do that, they need to break free of the instilled fears of Putin and Climate Change, as well as the fear of being deemed racist or Nazis just for being proud of their own cultural roots and peoples. I know there are some in Europe who see *exactly* what's going on, but from what I see from across the pond, it's not quite sinking in for most Europeans, and that has been an (honestly) anguished feeling for me and many others who love Europe and what makes Europe Europe! We hope and pray for a turnaround, but that can only be achieved by them.


And yes to your current post. There is no this-or-that idea on self-acceptance, or even regarding contact. If only it were that simple to categorize all of us into only two camps! I learned that fairly early myself. Once I came to the conclusion that this love, when genuine, is never wrong, I found myself faced with a whole new list of things to consider. The largest one of course, is to acknowlege the connundrum of whether it is possible to overcome a very huge and imposing belief in one's own society that an activity is bad/harmful. Can that very imposing societal belief overtake the beliefs of the younger person now, soon after, or even many years later? That is a really legit concern for which every one of us seems to arrive at a different conclusion, and even when we are in the same pro-contant camp.

Even more frustrating for me, becomes the people who blindly latch *this* concern to all other generally leftist concerns, never considering the reality that powerful forces within those established movements consistently place "child lovers and children" into those prefabricated roles of "opressor vs. opressed" rampant everywhere today on the left, with plenty of *actually* formerly abused children who become adults and are vehemently dedicated to preserving that label that applies to their personal experience. In the case of truly abused girls, many of them become lesbians and feminists, so why would anyone on the left want to harm their own recruiting abilities by admitting "The Patriarchy" is not really always a thing when it comes to why that adult loved you that much? They Most Definitely will push that explanation every damned time. Which is why it has always looked foolish to me why any of us wish and hope to "attach our carts" to that movement at all.

Bah. I hope your continent pulls through, and you all need to do it yourselves!