I think those people are largely in your imagination. You seem to be assuming a whole lot of dark motives or unsavoury opinions in reaction to people simply saying the EU is not perfect.
Unrelated to this chat, but I wonder what your political leaning is, just to understand where this aggressive defense of the EU is coming from. I assume you're not left or right, not radical in any direction. Would you describe yourself as moderate/centrist/Starmer's Labour/Macronite?
> I think those people are largely in your imagination.
Nope, they are in this very thread, complaining about "unelected" officials.
Initially I dismissed this as a product of ignorance, but they keep repeating the same bullshit after being corrected. It is clearly bad faith.
> You seem to be assuming a whole lot of dark motives or unsavoury opinions in reaction to people simply saying the EU is not perfect.
That is not the argument. The EU is far from perfect, and if that's the discussion, I wouls have a lot of things to say about it.
> but I wonder what your political leaning is, just to understand where this aggressive defense of the EU is coming from.
I tend to see myself as left of center, although I did drift further to the left over time.
I am not from the UK to describe myself in in the UK political spectrum, although looking from the outside I have the impression Labour is largely ineffective and Starmer is (was?) running the government pretty much as the tories would have.
I am also not French. My understanding is that for French standards Macron is center-right?
My tone is appropriate.