Posted on 04/22/2017 1:56:28 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Think what you will about America’s contentious identity politics; compared with France, the United States remains Mayberry, TV’s symbol of small-town innocence. We may have Black Lives Matter, massive resistance to a president seeking to enforce the country’s existing immigration laws, and urban riots. But in France the riots are bigger and last far longer. It has hundreds of thousands of people possessing French citizenship but evincing no discernible national loyalty. And there are few geographic barriers between itself and the sources of inundating immigration. No one can forecast with confidence the American future—whether it be a more or less successful assimilation of large streams of new immigrants or a transformed country where ethnic division is a norm underpinning every political transaction. But whatever the fate of Western civilization—whether it be a renaissance, or, as Pat Buchanan has predicted, its death—that fate will be revealed in Paris before New York or Chicago.
And that’s why France is the epicenter of today’s fearsome battle between Western elites bent on protecting and expanding the well-entrenched policy of mass immigration and those who see this spreading influx as an ultimate threat to the West’s cultural heritage, not to mention its internal tranquility. In France it is a two-front war. One is the political front, where Marine Le Pen’s National Front has moved from the fringes of politics into the mainstream. The other is the intellectual front, where a new breed of writers, thinkers, and historians has emerged to question the national direction and to decry those who have set the country upon its current course.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
I am watching what happens in France to see if they can save themselves. I predict that they can’t.
I’m watching too and hope that you’re wrong.
I hope I am wrong too. But, I know leftists.
Nobody believed that BREXIT would pass, but it did.
After all of the terror, in France, for the past few decades, which has grown exponentially, even some lefties are fed up, which just might "help" Le Pen.
OTOH...sadly, there are many Muslims in France, who ARE eligible to vote. :-(
In light of the recent events in Korea, the French government announced
yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to
“Hide.” The only two higher levels in France are “Collaborate” and
“Surrender.” The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed
France’s white flag factory, effectively paralysing the country’s
military capability.
The English are also feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in
Korea and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to
“Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to
“Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit
Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out.
Terrorists have been re-categorised from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody
Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning
level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.
The Scots have raised their threat level from “Fuck Off” to “Let’s get
the Bastards.” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason
they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last
300 years.
Italy has increased the alert level from “Shout Loudly and Excitedly”
to “Elaborate Military Posturing.” Two more levels remain: “Ineffective
Combat Operations” and “Change Sides.”
The Germans have increased their alert state from “Disdainful
Arrogance” to “Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs.” They also
have two higher levels: “Invade a Neighbour” and “Lose.”
Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only
threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.
The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to
deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new
Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.
Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from “No worries”
to “She’ll be alright, Mate.” Two more escalation levels remain:
“Crikey! I think we’ll need to cancel the Barbie this weekend!” and
“The Barbie is cancelled.” So far no situation has ever warranted use
of the final escalation level.
Great article - thanks for posting it.
There are many lessons for us to learn from it. Will we? We’re not far behind.
We might have a big clue in 24 hr.
There are many great anecdotes in that article - here’s one of them...
“When the François Mitterrand government in the late 1980s rounded up some illegal immigrants from Mali and put them on a flight back home, the left likened the policy to the trains exporting Jews to the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Among activists and celebrities organizing themselves in support of illegal immigrants, the undocumented were transmuted into France’s ultimate symbol of victimhood, an “ideal Jew,” in Zemmour’s phrase. With sardonic irony, he concludes: “For all the French who could not, or would not, or dared not, or wished not to save Jews in 1942, History benevolently provided them with a second opportunity.”
What a delicious turn of phrase that last quote!
That’s true for the american left as well - as they sanctify any illegal that is deported.
Hi, good evening. I’ll be watching the BBC tomorrow (and maybe later). I suspect there’ll be a run-off. I hope France wakes up but I’m more or less resigned that they’ll be afraid of being called racist and resist Le Pen. (Shouldn’t it be, La Pen, lol?)
I'll be watching too; though only here and there.
Though I do know French history and politics well, I'm hoping against hope, that enough of the French people are sick and tired of living in terror of the disgusting Muslim invaders, that they'll vote in big numbers for Le Pen.
Yes, I think it should be "La", but oh well....I haven't had to like/worry about "gender" French words in a long time ;^)
large numbers of Europeans and Americans will go to cultural and even physical death to show that they are not "racist."
Caesar had it easy. Even with burning bridges. Tres? How about a hundred? At least we have the Atlantic Ocean to keep us apart from them. Been there. Not impressed.
If you wrote that, you are a comic genius.
The United States should apologize to every family that gave up a loved one, and ever soldier who was injured, in the defense of France not once, but twice, only to see it give itself away to a barbarian cult that will take it over within 30 years. Le Pen may win, but that is only the first step in a battle that will require more than I think the French are willing to do; it will require a Spanish style reconquista and an expulsion of the muslims from western lands. They are not up to it. Neither are we, but we might yet be.
Sounds like Iowahawk. Loved it.
Some very telling statistics from this lengthy but excellent article:
Last year Michel Gurfinkiel weighed conflicting estimates (between three and six million) of the number of French Muslims in the mid-1990s and contrasted them with present estimates. He concluded that the current figure is roughly six million, or 9 percent of the population, and that it is growing at a much faster rate than the French population as a whole. As early as 2010, fully 20 percent of French under 24 were described as Muslim. A more recent poll in the liberal French weekly L’Obs reported that more than a quarter of French youth described themselves as Muslim.
Because the government does not publish statistics about race, some curious researchers have looked at the number of newborn babies screened for markers for sickle-cell anemia, a test given if both parents are of African, North African, or Sicilian origin. The figure has risen from 25 percent in 2005 to 39 percent in 2015. In the Greater Paris region it has risen from 54 percent to 73 percent. One understands why Houellebecq’s right-wing professor says he wants the inevitable civil war to come “as soon as possible.”
Steyn wrote a book about it. The demographics of Europe ensure a Muslim majority by 2040 or 2050. They will probably have taken over long before then, as they are very annoying at 10 percent and at 20 percent they are fanatic enough to force everyone to submit, unless they fight back and expel them. The Spaniards were the last to do that, and today they get a bad rap for it. I don’t think the Eurofags have it in them any more. They let their women get raped and wonder what they did wrong.
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