Apparently, even the prospect of a Front National win in France has got people wetting their panties.
Two weeks before the French cast their first presidential ballots, the spectre of victory for the far-right leader who promises to crack down on immigration and outlaw gay marriage sends shivers down many a spine.Pollsters say the anti-EU firebrand can count on the unwavering support of about one in four voters to get her past the first round of voting on April 23.
Although they also say the National Front (FN) leader cannot win in the decisive May 7 runoff whoever she faces, a great many pundits were wrong about Brexit and Donald Trump after failing to feel the populist pulse.
And with one in three voters still undecided at this late stage, pollsters would be wise to hedge their bets.
Predictions of a “nightmare” Le Pen presidency abound in bookstores and the media.
Oh, please. “Nightmare“? The Left believes their own propaganda too much. Over Here, God-Emperor Trump’s victory has led to the same kind of overblown idiotic prophesies: gays in concentration camps, women’s wombs exploding with unwanted babies, mass deportations of illegal immigrants and [fill in your favorite Leftist nightmare here] — none of which has happened, nor will it. Yet still they believe it, and as in France, media reportage and bookstore gossip support their pathetic little fantasies.
And as for Marine Le Pen’s party being “far-right”… the FN is far-right only by comparison to the screaming meemies of the Left in Europe and the alt-Left over here. By comparison to the group known as Kim’s Loyal Readers, the FN is actually about center-left (wealth super-taxation and pro-abortion: not so popular on my back porch).
Seriously: go read the FN’s party platform. Only Lefties, academics, journos and similar assorted loons [some overlap] would find anything remotely objectionable. My guess is that apart from the two issues above, not one of you is going to strenuously oppose anything the FN stands for; I sure as hell don’t.
To the the FN and Marine Le Pen I say therefore: “En avant, mes braves! et à bas les sales marxistes! Vive la France!”
The problem with FN is not that they are far right. The problem is that they are a rather screwed up blend of far leftism with nationalism. The sad part is that is probably the best that France is likely to do in the meantime.
What the French need is something along the lines of the German Alternative für Deutschland which is more of a US idea of a right wing party (classical liberalism, small government, limits on immigration, pro national vs. international institutions). In the mosaic of French parties that I know of (which is admittedly limited) – I don’t think that is even an option.
You’re right. From our perspective, the FN is the best the Frogs have got.
And another one, the Aerojet rocket motor plant near Sacramento, closing and moving the work to Huntsville, AL:
http://spacenews.com/aerojet-to-move-rocket-engine-work-out-of-historic-facility/
The media will not let us hear from the French outside of Paris. Really hoping to see the Parisians going wee-wee in their pants.