Adding to the panic-stricken voices of the Left Over Here, FrogPres “Manny” Macron weighs in:
Emmanuel Macron has warned the public that “civil war” awaits France if they fail to vote for his brand of centrist neo-liberalism in the upcoming legislative elections.
I guess it should be noted that while we Murkins had our own little shindig just before the Frogs had theirs, we are (as a nation) less likely to repeat the exercise — although I may stand to be corrected, if the 2024 elections are of a certain type.
The Frogs, however, are a lot more volatile, as I’ve mentioned before.
Mind you, that’s not to say that the French governments of recent times haven’t earned such a shitstorm, as the popularity of the National Rally has proved. But then again, our own .gov hasn’t exactly earned the respect of the populace either, so…
All this, however, takes place in an environment in which the Brits seem most likely to be about to commit national hara-kiri themselves, by tossing out (on, ironically, July 4) their own Stupid Party (the not-so-Conservatives) and replacing them with the reliably-Communist Labour Party. But I digress.
Back to the French: the 1789 Revolution took place against a political and social order which was manifestly unjust and in many cases actually malevolent, wherein an unelected power elite (the Royalty and Church) ran the country at the expense of ordinary people.
It remains to be seen, then, whether the French will revolt against their government again, for precisely the same reasons — only instead of the Royalty being the villains, there is the European Union (only nominally elected by the French citizenry) and instead of the Church, the multiple “religions” of socialist and Green policies. It sounds like a facile comparison, but clearly it’s enough to frighten Macron, which is why he’s sounding the alarm.
And finally: after our Revolution, we didn’t hack off the heads of the deposed ruling class, but the Frogs sure as hell did.
So maybe Macron and his lizard people have a right to be fearful.
It’s going to be interesting — in both countries.
Ironically, here in the UK the best way forward is for Starmer to get a very large majority so he can ignore the loony lefties. Some people (e.g. those on Samizdata.net) are hoping that the Tories suffer a Canada-like destruction so they can rise like a phoenix next time.
Farage’s Reform UK party has suffered the problem of inadequate vetting of candidates with the result that there are some rather poor quality candidates.
Starmer IS one of the loony lefties.
I agree that a big Labour majority is the way forward for the UK, but only because it MIGHT get the population to realise during their reign that Labour is even worse than the Tories.
Problem is that if Labour gets a supermajority, they may use it to just disband the monarchy and get rid of democratic elections entirely, turning the country into the police state they’ve always wanted.
Which is basically the same the Dems are doing in the US of course, where they’d have gone a lot further a lot faster than they have been doing because they don’t have that supermajority.
So Macron threatens that the left will start killing people unless they win the elections.
Which is no different from what Warren is doing in the US, Starmer in the UK, etc. etc. etc.
France has has a ton of coup d’é·tat attempts and a fair number were successful. The last successful one was in 1958, but thay had an attempted one in the 60s and about 300 police/military men caught planning one in 2021. It is not out of the question.
If I were French (and I thank my God that I am not), I would vote against Macron, just to see what happens next.
Giving rise to yet another French victory, they have a perfect record of defeating themselves in their civil wars and it isn’t likely to change. The victors, will probably be the French that live in the country rather than Paris this time around.
“we didn’t hack off the heads of the deposed ruling class, but the Frogs sure as hell did.”
Some of them – but the great majority of victims of the Terror were not aristocrates. Many were petty criminals, low-ranking priests and nuns, moderate revolutionaries (the Girondins), extremists (the Hébertists), common folk suspected of royalism, and even children.
The Terror and the earlier September Massacres were spasms of panic in response to foreign invasion and royalist rebellions such as the Vendée.
If things go south in the US, I would expect similar outbreaks.