<![CDATA[As a red, white, and blue-blooded American, one of the things that has fascinated me over the past few years while watching the European Union is their dogged determination to remain on their path toward a predetermined collectivism. The unelected elites in the ruling EU tiers in Brussels remain wedded to enforcing a progressive dogma on their captive hive, even as the results of many of their diktats and mandates have proven deleterious at best, if not downright disastrous in some instances.]]>