Élection présidentielle française

[Admiral Yi]

I couldn't agree more.  It appears a majority of French are fancying more terror attacks, more social dissolution, more economic regression... for fear of... what exactly?

For starters, demographic death spiral and the bankruptcy of the welfare state.

[Grallon]

For starters, demographic death spiral and the bankruptcy of the welfare state.

The bankruptcy of the welfare state wouldn't be happening if the wealth created by globalization wasn't captured at its source by a rapacious transnational elite who has no allegiance to anything but its own wallet.

As for the demographic death spiral it could be alleviated through other means than immigration from third world shitholes whose populations are determined to drag the West down to the level of shithole-iness they're accustomed to.



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[Solmyr]

It's a shame France won't actually elect Le Pen in the run off, she is the only chance France doesn't devolve into a Sheikdom. I don't pretend that her Presidency would be pleasant or enjoyable for many, but neither is cauterizing a wound, but it is sometimes necessary.

I couldn't agree more.  It appears a majority of French are fancying more terror attacks, more social dissolution, more economic regression... for fear of... what exactly?

Becoming a Putinist puppet state. You know, like America did.

[citizen k]

Does France need its own Tony Blair?

Are Blairists  really popular now?  He always seemed to be a globalist neoliberal and not a populist. 

[mongers]

Does France need its own Tony Blair?

Are Blairists  really popular now?  He always seemed to be a globalist neoliberal and not a populist. 

The later cloaked the former.

[CountDeMoney]

Becoming a Putinist puppet state. You know, like America did.

Ain't that the truth.  I wonder, though:  how much of Trump's wink-wink endorsement of Le Pen is going to backfire with the not-so-wink-wink French disdain for America?

[Grinning_Colossus]

Apropos of nothing, this is the current Bourbon claimant, Louis XX:

[Ed Anger]

I have no comment

[CountDeMoney]

After about five bourbons, I'm sure you wouldn't.

[jimmy olsen]

After about five bourbons, I'm sure you wouldn't.

Lol 

[Zoupa]

It'll be 60-62% Macron in two weeks.

We'll be fine, renowned Gallic experts Otto and Grallon notwithstanding. Bring youth unemployment down to around 15% and watch all of France's "problems with muslims" disappear.

It's not rocket science.

[CountDeMoney]

It'll be 60-62% Macron in two weeks.

4-5% for Clinton.

[Zoupa]

Harsh toke, bubba, harsh toke.

I do believe I might have more insight into my countrymen than yours though.

[Richard Hakluyt]

He will have a difficult task ahead of him. The vote was 30% for continuity and 70% for change. Of course he may be the Messiah, but I doubt it.

[Monoriu]

I remember there was a time when another Le Pen unexpectedly entered the second stage of the presidential election, and there was general outrage.  Now it is perfectly normal for a far right candidate to do so.  If conditions don't change, I think it is only a matter of time before people decide to give the far right a chance.