[robertlagrant]

Fascism requires an authoritarian state. If you don't want the horrors of the 20th century, be it fascists with a world war, or socialism with even more deaths despite being in peacetime, you don't want authoritarianism to take hold, and you want to move power out of the state.

[FpUser]

>"you don't want authoritarianism to take hold"

I think the EU is well on its way of accomplishing just that. Not that it is unique in aspirations