Democracy deniers - a paucity of intellectual rigour

The Euro Idiots de jour are Maciej Kisilowski and Anna Wojciuk – dissident Polish academics at odds with the democratic choices of their fellow countrymen. To read the risible trash they have penned for Politico EU is to gain an insight into the deep delusions of the Refuseniks, the democracy deniers.

Democracy, they insist is a sort of disease that can be ‘contained’ by right-thinking illiberal authoritarians such as themselves. Like Communism. And the way in which they can ‘contain’ democracy, they state, is to use the anti-democratic powers of the unelected EU to bully, harass, victimise and thuggishly sanction any signs of emergent democracy across Europe. To use, in other words, exactly the methods used by the Soviet Union to repress emergent freedoms in its satellite nations. These two Poles would no doubt have reasoned that Lech Walesa should have been sent to a gulag right at the start, for the good of Poland. 

The utter vacuousness of their intellectual reach is exposed by their projecting their own stupidity onto Europe’s democrats -

“You cannot “keep migrants out” and pay for the growing number of pensioners.” 
Yes you can. That Europe needs millions of migrants to work the factories that will shortly all be automated was a Globalist’s myth, a con. Open borders policies have one aim only – to help destroy national identity and to establish a Globalist hegemony.

“As a mid-sized nation-state, you cannot both “take back control” and strengthen your position in the global economy.”
Ah, the Orwellian mantras that slavery is freedom, poverty is wealth. Only giving away your sovereignty to a supranational authority can make you a viable nation, they claim. This is utter bilgewater and like their previous point is offered without any supporting evidence. In fact there is much evidence to the contrary.

“You cannot make government more accountable to “the people” at the same time as you destroy independent institutions.”
Again, a paradox against reason. By rejecting unelected anti-democratic self-appointed illiberal supranationalists you become less democratic, they claim. What they mean by ‘independent institutions’ is institutions free from any democratic control or oversight – like the organs of the Soviet state.
  
“And you cannot build an innovative economy while stifling critical thinking.”
But surely under their Sovietised. illiberal and authoritarian anti-democracy, stifling critical thinking – i.e. thinking that opposes their bigoted orthodoxy, is the entire point of the ‘containment’ they are advocating.

This drivel is the thin intellectual gruel of the EU’s cerebral giants. No wonder EU universities are utterly third-rate, with not a single EU27 university in the global top 20. And no wonder so many Poles are flocking to the UK to experience what world-beating universities, with four or five in the global top 20, can demonstrate to these illiberal antidemocrats.