You're right. There's a weird dynamic to the EU v. nation state debate that is mostly devoid of reality. The EU is framed as the institution of democracy and free enterprise while the nation states are framed as institutions of authoritarianism and restrictive economics.
The democracy nonsense is an utter fairytale. Every national government in Europe is more democratic than the EU is. Victor Orban is far more of a democrat and has far more credibility on democracy than anyone in the EU.
The economic argument has a little more merit in some parts of Europe. There are Eurosceptic movements that are more socialistic than the EU is. However, that definitely is not the case for most of them and certainly isn't so in the UK.
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