Prager: Europe Envy - Few of Pathologies Destroying US Are Present in Any Comparable Degree There

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Why I Feel Better in Europe

No matter how left the politics of European nations, few deny the male-female distinction as much as America does, because of the trans lobby.

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...Two years ago, even the woke New York Times acknowledged that Europe’s Left is different. Under the headline “Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of Its Leaders Think So,” the article began: The threat is said to be existential. It fuels secessionism. Gnaws at national unity. Abets Islamism. Attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage.

The threat? “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States,” said President Emmanuel Macron. French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas—specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism—are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,” warned Macron’s education minister.

During the lockdowns in states such as California that were ruining small business, the economy in general, and the precious and irretrievable years of children’s youth in particular, I wrote a column about how I, a Californian, felt on a visit to Florida, where businesses were open, people ate in restaurants without masks, and my grandchildren attended school and other activities of normal childhood. I wrote that in Florida, I felt like I did during the Cold War, when I returned to the West after spending time in communist countries.

And now, for the first time in my life, I feel freer in Europe than in America.

That’s why this is one of the saddest columns I’ve ever written.

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