EU is a crazy monster. The ever more failing economic, industrial, agricultural, immigration, ... policies are always leading to to even more centralization and freedom restrictions just to keep the parasite alive.

In the old communist past, anyone could at least easily compare the centralized communist model with the much more free western capitalism model. Nowadays, there's virtually no states left standing to provide the contrast.

On the other hand, we have the parallel shadowy communities and individuals growing strong and shining even stronger signal than any state example ever could.