[DaedPsyker]

Being from Europe, my perspective might be as biased as American fatalism but as the article says I think the key most important aspect is lacking a true single market and I'm sceptical of us ever achieving it.

The more we fall behind the more we'll cling to tradition and avoid further integration, a continuous cycle.

[tormeh]

> we'll cling to tradition

I think this is mostly a matter of old voter bases.

[bobolino123]

Why can't an European company sell to the US?

[dukeyukey]

They do, and unsurprisingly it's the relatively culturally-close countries of Ireland and the UK that sell the most to the US. But no European country has a free trade agreement with the US, and industrial standards are different because the EU is big enough to act as it's own trade centre.