“With multiculturalism cracking up everywhere,” Derb writes below, “why do Italians, Irish, Portuguese and Poles want to submit their public affairs to a common bureaucracy? I don’t get it.”

Could it be that Italians, Irish, Portuguese and Poles have been inadequately consulted in the matter? As Bruce Thornton argues, even the stoutest admirers of the European Union would never call it a truly democratic project. A former president of France, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, drafts a new EU constitution; the rules state unambiguously that to take effect the document must be ratified by every country in the EU, France itself rejects the new constitution…and? And the EU decides to go right ahead and abide by the document anyway, making vague noises about sooner or later holding a new vote in the hope that this time the peasants will get it right.

On the other hand, are ordinary Europeans–that is to say, the peasants–outraged? Or even, so far as one can tell, mildly miffed? Nope.

I’m with Derb. I don’t get it.