There’s a pattern to organizations that repeats with all the reliability of mold on bread. The smaller and newer they are, the closer they sit to the actual concerns of real people. Not because they’re pure, but because they haven’t yet grown enough shadows for the parasites to hide in. The grifters and fools are still there, of course—they always are—but they’re routinely dragged into the sunlight, and that keeps the vampire population manageable.
But let an organization swell in size and age, and the rot sets in. Grift multiplies. Accountability evaporates. The cracks widen, and suddenly every idiot and opportunist has found a corner to squat in, sucking resources and producing nothing of value.
And in Europe, no organism is more grotesquely swollen than the European Union. Unsurprisingly, it has become a teeming mass of leeches, vampires, and political carrion-eaters, incapable of producing anything even vaguely aligned with the needs or wants of actual citizens. Its responsiveness to reality hovers just above zero.
How do you fix something like that?
You don’t.
You leave.
Austria would be far better off tending to Austrian problems on Austrian soil. Yes, there would still be corruption. Yes, the usual creatures would still find ways to feed. But they’d be easier to spot. Easier to name. Harder to hide from the people whose pockets they’re raiding.There’s a reason small countries are usually better governed than large ones. It’s not magic. It’s visibility. You can’t loot the treasury from behind a curtain when there’s no curtain left to hide behind.