History has show many, many, many times that super states do not last and all of those in history were not democratic. They all fall from the inside out.
We live in a world that is so globalised and technologically advanced that you just can't compare it to what has gone before. Whether you think it is right or wrong, there is no turning the clock back. You have to live in the world as it is, not the world as you want it to be. If history has taught us anything it is that it's better to be a realist than an idealist.
Look at what has happened in the US rust belt. They weren't competitive, so the manufacturing jobs have gone elsewhere and the area is in deep decline. The world is tougher and things are more ruthless now - you have to adapt or you will not survive. If your country's economy is not competitive enough, your job will go to China, simple as that. And if being in the EU is what keeps your economy going, then surely that is a price worth paying?
Western culture is better then the middle east.
Are you really so sure about that? OK, I agree a lot of Islam is barbaric and medieval. But we live in a world where people can change their gender, have no gender, believe it is offensive to say the word gender... Apparently 'gender neutral toyshops' is a serious political campaign issue. Soon I'll be able to marry my sister or my cat, seeing as men can marry men and women can marry women and nobody bats an eyelid. There are women who use abortion as a form of birth control, it's acceptable for a 16yo to be unmarried yet have two children by different fathers and nobody dare say otherwise... There are women who go to the supermarket IN THEIR PYJAMAS. I could go on.
Radical Islam is disgusting and a danger to the world, yet I can totally understand how a girl of muslim origin might look around her and see other girls who have no standards, no respect for themselves or their bodies, and despair at what the world has come to. I'm not saying getting dressed up like the Grim Reaper and following a barmy medieval prophet is the answer, but the question she is asking is a good one.
Nobody listens to the church anymore, it has no power. If these political correct types actually listen to these muslims, at least it may put some breaks on the crazy train.
Democracy is ineffective, corruptible and slow.
But... but you've just spent the whole post arguing you are against the EU because it is not democratic?!