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What's frustrating is that it works really well, and occasionally they get something truly stupid through- which goes a long way to whipping up anti-EU sentiment, but then they're forcing their countries to actually do the stupid thing... Nobody seems to call out this self-sabotage.
The head of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, isn't known to be anti-EU.
I used to track the voting history of UKIP members, the site "VoteWatch Europe" used to make this easy, but it shut down in 2022.
UKIP were constantly voting for things to be discussed (when they bothered to vote at all), and then when they were discussed they would thump chest in the media about how the EU was talking about doing the thing they had voted to discuss (with the verbiage to suggest the EU would definitely do it, against the will of the British- forgetting entirely that we had a veto anyway...).
Or do you think, maybe, that there's a deeper issue here and the problem isn't exclusive to just these anti-EU politicians you want to scapegoat?
In order to get legislation you want (say: gay rights) you have to risk legislation you don’t like, for some, that would be gay rights too…
And things that you think are bad, are bad.
Everyone feels this way about their things.
There are plenty of subjective areas where people can disagree without being fundamentally bad people. These things are not those.
What's your position on military spending? Because if we don't spend then our countries get invaded (see: Ukraine) but if we do spend then we're taking money from starving families.. hrm..
I personally have a really hard time, since unfortunately I can empathise with the motivations of others, and everyone has a point, even if I don't agree with it.
The thing is, that I'm aware that everyone thinks they're the good guy, the hero, or the "necessary evil for the greater good", and I find it more interesting to understand why they think what they think is better than what I think.
The alternative means I've already factored the entire populations needs and circumstances, which, for my tiny meat brain which can only empathise with one person at a time is practically impossible.
How did you manage it?
Or, abortion is bad.
Or, apostasy is bad.
Or, drawing a depiction of Muhammed is bad.
They don't consider them opinions, they consider them facts.
I'm sure a couple of people who are supporting this government ID initiative genuinely believe that it's the only solution to an actual problem: because they don't have the technical acumen to figure out a solution that preserves privacy, ensures freedom of dependency from a single nations duopoly and actually solves their issue.
If any entity is "self-sabotaging", it's the European Commission. But it's not self-sabotage, it's simply yet another bureaucratic measure to assert power and control the population.