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Related news: more and more questions emerge about the Euro as a currency. People are asking for it to be scrapped, without looking at the negative consequences. They want back to the good olde days, which simply isn't an option. But the results are obvious: the Euro is already losing out against the dollar, and this may become worse.
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I dont want to sound smug or anything but everyone knew this was going to happen. Very few of the countries in Europe have good self-sustaining economies. It was an obvious FU when they set the Euro to such a high value compared to the Dollar. Unfortunately the economies of Europe could not sustain the high value, as well as the sudden added expense of tourism because of the exchange rate many Americans simply stopped going there, further hurting the economies.
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IMO, never have so many Americans voted against their own interests and those of the economic well being and future economic opportunities of their own families, as they have in the red states in 2000 and 2004. This phenomena is the tip of the "self-disempowerment" iceberg that you so aptly phrase it to be.
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IMO "self-disempowerment" is those who seek to make the government forcably redistribute wealth. Now I'm not against a progressive tax system, but the extent of redistribution many people seek is simply rediculous. When I graduate I expect a well paying job. I paid for 4 years of college on my own because my family could not afford it. Why do I want to turn around and hand over more than 50% of my income to those people who dropped out of high school because they didnt like to learn? That is self-disempowerment IMO.