Anonymous wrote:

Yes, the youth are abandoning The Left in droves and leading the Far Right in Europe

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is from a “small c” conservative in the US. Hes the executive director of the American Conservative, young, and doesn’t like Trump

I think this is true, but simplified enormously.

This is from a “small c” conservative in the US. Hes the executive director of the American Conservative, young, and doesn’t like Trump

Anonymous wrote:

Amazing - they are exactly as revolting as American leftists.

Anonymous wrote:

How low has France sunk? Good god.

Anonymous wrote:French person here. ***Please beware of deliberate attempts to confuse you on this thread***. The posts above refer to the first prelimary round of the elections two weeks ago, not the one yesterday.

Here is the CURRENT map of which political coalition came out ahead in each "circonscription" in the second and final round of the parliamentary elections yesterday: The left is in pink, center is orange, right is blue, far-right is brown.

How on earth does anything get done with the parliament so divided? Seems ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll have to bookmark this thread so we can check in on how France is doing in five years.

Yep. I predict something like this:

+100
Why are LWNJs so intent on chaos and destruction? Win, lose… doesn’t seem to matter.

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

It actually took 8 parties, I believe. The four on the left that made a coalition, plus the three that make up Macron’s center coalition—they agreed to withdraw candidates and instructed their voters to vote for whoever was left that wasn’t the RN. Plus the mainstream-right party LR left a lot of their own candidates in the races who qualified, which helped to split the votes of the right between them and the RN.

I don’t think I’d call it “unfair” because this is always how the French elections have worked, being in two rounds and having candidates tactfully withdraw to block someone you really don’t want to win... but there is something about it that rubs me the wrong way.

But I’d hardly call this a win for the left or the center. Create an ungovernable parliament (cause the left and center have no intention of actually joining together) just to keep another party who looked likely to win, out of power. But they still almost doubled the number of seats they won 2 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:The RN did well in Southern France, where everyone who cheers for Mélenchon loves to spend their vacation.

A paradox of European politics is that almost everyone wants to live in the world that Le Pen, Orban, et al. want to preserve, yet still votes for those intent on destroying it.

British Liberals typically will gush about fairly demographically stable places like villages, Edinburgh, Bath and the nice parts of London (Hampstead, Kew etc). They aspire to live there rather than Ilford, Bradford or inner Birmingham.

They can't outrun it forever though.

Why would you need to go outside London for a more mixed area? You’ll find plenty of liberals happily living in Brixton, Camberwell, Streatham, Hackney, Bethnall Green, Bermondsey, Stockwell, etc. They are pretty demographically mixed.

The RN did well in Southern France, where everyone who cheers for Mélenchon loves to spend their vacation.

A paradox of European politics is that almost everyone wants to live in the world that Le Pen, Orban, et al. want to preserve, yet still votes for those intent on destroying it.

British Liberals typically will gush about fairly demographically stable places like villages, Edinburgh, Bath and the nice parts of London (Hampstead, Kew etc). They aspire to live there rather than Ilford, Bradford or inner Birmingham.

They can't outrun it forever though.

Anonymous wrote:LOL. MAGA sore losers are complaining that the Left "cheated" in the recent French election. Have there ever been, in the entire history of this nation, whinier sore losers than MAGA?

MAGA Fumes Over France Election Results
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075

Of course. It's never that their policies suck ass and they scare the crap out of people, it's that the other guy "cheats".