I have long distrusted the development of the European Union. Phyllis Schlafly seconds and provides reasoning behind my instinctual distrust in "European Union a model for the demise of democracy." She is hardly unbiased, but then who is? It is a disturbing picture she paints, and with the glimpses into the workings of the European Union that the software patent fight over there have given, even paying as little attention to it as I ended up doing, I am tending to believe she is likely accurate.