Posted on 04/24/2022 9:54:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Emmanuel Macron has hacked away at civil liberties, with heightened police repression and ministers promising to root out “Islamo-leftism.” Marine Le Pen would be much worse — she’ll wage all-out war on France’s democratic institutions.
Spirits were low last Tuesday at the Dorothy, a café and community space in Paris named after Catholic American labor activist Dorothy Day. Two days earlier, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing France Insoumise, had finished third in the first round of France’s presidential election, a little over 400,000 votes shy of qualifying for the runoff. The reality was sinking in that on April 24, voters will again have to choose between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. The incumbent Macron and the slew of conservative candidates divided up some 68 percent of the first-round electorate, an unmistakable sign of the country’s lurch to the right.
With a keen eye for timing, the anti-capitalist, Christian-inflected magazine Limite chose this moment to host a public discussion with François Bégaudeau. A novelist, filmmaker, and essayist, Bégaudeau is one of the few great polymaths in contemporary French culture, a keen observer whose unpretentious novels channel a frank realism. His 2008 film The Class, on a teacher assigned to a difficult Paris school, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Picture at the Academy Awards.
But it’s as a social critic that Bégaudeau has most distinguished himself. His controversial 2019 essay, The Story of Your Stupidity, pillories the moral pretensions of what Bégaudeau now calls the “cool bourgeoisie”: the upper-middle-class Macronists who go to such ends to distinguish themselves from crass reactionaries like the Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour ilk. When their interests depend on it, Bégaudeau argues, the hip side of the ruling classes shed their easygoing mystique and...
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Democracy? I’m pretty sure France is a Republic, just like the USA.
Owwww! Waiting for the “Trump in drag!” comments if she were to win. But, 81 million votes........ Just sayin’.
That’s what they said about Trump - she must be really good 🤪
Perhaps “Jacobin” tipped you off?
Yep they say the same thing here, OMG the right is a “Danger to our democracy” which means a danger to Communism
The original Jacobins helped usher in the horrible Reign of Terror that followed the French Revolution. The Jacobins loved revolutionary tribunals, and they loved the guillotine.
So I find it interesting that this news source is named after the Jacobins.
I predict there is about the same chance of her winning as there was of PDJT winning in 2020 and in 2024.
It would be really bad for the Globalists, because first off.... she would be in power. But immeasurably worse than that is it would be an example for the rest of the world that these guys can be beaten.
Obviously, the EU is in complete panic that Marine might win.
If France leaves the EU, like Great Britain, the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, and George Soros would be very, very unhappy.
Perhaps even more unhinged than they normally are.
Perhaps, for France, the destruction of “democracy” is not a bad thing.
Much grief and many ills of the world may be laid at the doorstep of whatever “democracy” has wrought.
“Rule of the people” is just open to SO many misinterpretations. Even the Greeks would not understand how much the term has been cheapened and misused.
“she’ll wage all-out war on France’s democratic institutions.”
Really?
On which “democratic institutions” will she wage war?
And how will she go about waging “war”?
Founded on democratic principals, meaning people get to vote for their leaders, unlike a monarchy or a dictatorship where people do not get any say at all in their rulers.
That's what is meant when the term "democracy" is used.
“Everyone who disagrees with me is a danger to democracy”
is now a corollary of
“Everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi”
she does.
Democracy has about as much meaning as racist anymore. RATs overuse the same words and make them irrelevant. Yawn
Fixed elections and stolen elections are not democracy in action.
That’s what they said about Trump - she must be really good 🤪
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That’s exactly my first reaction to reading the lead paragraph.
It does help, though, if you know their language. “our democracy” means the enslavement of the people. Once you learn their lingo, their bafflementarian BS is much easier to understand.
That is not what THEY mean when they use the term "democracy". What THEY mean is that their socialist club/agenda will be shattered.
ha ha ha
The stated goal of the Jacobins is to destroy democratic republics through violent revolution.
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