However, EPPES politicians have consistently underwhelmed even my most pessimistic forecasts, Verts/EFA is, on economy, an appendage to ALDE, and most of ALDE proper is flat out insane.

And that's not even getting into the ugly parties.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

Right now, they believe policy has worked and worked in a particular way that justifies continuing without change...

So far no prominent figures have taken on the myth of how Germany got to the current situation...

I didn't mean my comment as a personal criticism, just an observation that we need a mainstream commentator to ask questions about the "New German Miracle" - because unless someone starts asking about the export of inflation from Germany to the periphery, we're never going to even make a tiny hole in the self-assured ignorance that is guiding German policy at the moment.

1. I think chaos is coming and that might make the outcome unpredictable. Does anyone disagree with that?

2. Integration is bad. I suppose most would disagree here.

I am not rooting for war, nor I think any good will come out of it. But war is clearly coming because of people clinging to integrationist wet dreams.

Imagine a party like Syriza organized at the European level to compete in EP elections.  A Party for a Social Europe, that challenges the financial elites, and demands that a social bill of rights be written into an EU Constitution that will be brought for referendum before the continent's people.  

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

Nothing like a few good wars to put power back in the hands of the little people, eh?

I'm having a memory deficit there. When was power in the hands of the little people? The closest thing I recall was the GI Bill and the Gilded Age that lasted about twenty years after WWII. Then the Chicago Boys stepped in with their ideology and Thatcher was their first prophet.