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2006-05-21 Europe

Le Pen and French far Right achieve record popularity

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Posted by Sheling Unomons1998 2006-05-21 00:06|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Big deal... even if he goes to 2nd turn (quite possible, the FN score is always and probably willingly minored by polls), he will lose 80/20... and even in the remotely probable possibility he's elected, he's 80 and will have not a snowball in hell chance of governing, having ALL of the Establishment up in arm against him.

Anyway, he's very ambigouus when it comes to islam, and while I like him for he is something of a monkeywrench in the machinery (though he's been instrumentalized by the System, and he perfectly knows it), he's anti-US, most probably antisemite (that didn't prevent about 20% of french jews to vote for him in 2002, more than his overall 18%, based on his anti-immigration/anti-arab stance), pro-Saddam, he thinks Iran should have the Bomb,...
I prefer De Villiers, but he will do about 5%.

Still, there are talks of a common front for the national right (Pépé Le Pen, De Villiers, and Mégret). who knows?

France is an oligarchy, backed by an another oligarchy (Brussel), it *won't* change, reform, anything,... until there is some kind of "paradigm shift", to use big words I don't fully understand. And this will come after say a real crisis, brought either by external event (this is how our Republics fall), or a State bankruptcy.
Then, all bets are open on what come next, with the caveat that leftists and their ideas are well supported by the public (endocrination by the national education system) and are well-organized.
And of course, there is the muslim minority, which is now placated by welfare and an unhinged underground economy. When th emoney dry off, anything can happen.
The same is true for the EU I think. It won't reform, it will fall.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-21 06:43|| 2006-05-21 06:43|| Front Page Top

#2 IMO, Le Pen is just a scarecrow of the French establishment.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-21 17:42|| 2006-05-21 17:42|| Front Page Top

#3 And let's not forget: France's "far right" is somewhere to the left of Ted Kennedy.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-05-21 17:54|| 2006-05-21 17:54|| Front Page Top

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