I read an interesting piece which argued that Europeans are more subservient to the American power-elite than Americans.

This makes a lot of sense. Americans are the source of the elite's economic power, and so the elites can't really avoid letting some power slip into their hands.

Europeans on the other hand are not really necessary to the elite's power - and as such they'd sooner run the continent into the ground than allow any rival power base to emerge. Subservience is simply the only game in town.

And the way they market this is really clever too, they cast the American rival power as *representative* of America and they deride it as unscientific backwards, anti-intellectual, violent & unintelligent.

And Europeans wanting to differentiate themselves from Americans fall right into the trap: seeking to become pro-science intellectual gentile intelligentsia. IE: docile & obedient.

This view that the seat of western elite power is in fact the USA explains a number of things:

1. America is at war with itself - well yes, there are rival powers
2. Europe is not - of course not, any semblance of rival power has been crushed already
3. Britain and its colonies lost imperial status to the Americans, and they're getting collectively stuffed in the locker - which is why those are some of the most miserable places to live recently. - Up until the 1960s, Canada had a unique and interesting culture of "Britishness on the frontier". Now their culture has been crushed and replaced with a carbon-copy of what the American power elite promulgate through The Democratic Party.
4. Every country's level of acceptance of this US Democrat value-system is very much correlated to their level of dependence on America.