Macron is already over. Can anyone stop Le Pen?
Macron is already over. Can anyone stop Le Pen?
The president must decide if his candidates should drop out and back the left to stop the far right winning power in France.
The president must decide if his candidates should drop out and back the left to stop the far right winning power in France.
The entire non-authoritarian fascist population of earth is fucked. Can we just get it over with already
It would be a good idea, but historically centrist liberals will team up with conservatives to stop the left before the opposite. Let's see what happens in France.
That's exactly what's happening. In counties where there are three or more candidates for the second turn, the progressives asked their third place candidate to withdraw, not to split the vote. They're waiting for the same favour from Macron's candidate, which will most likely not come.
Fwiw around 70 macronist 3rd place candidates have dropped out compared 110 popular front ones, which is roughly proportional to their votes.
Please stop calling them conservative call the animal with its own name: Fascists
This is the best summary I could come up with:
PARIS — After his snap election gamble backfired, Emmanuel Macron faces a bitterly painful choice: pull his candidates out to try to stop the far right, or attempt to save what remains of his once-dominant movement before it dies.
Europe’s second-biggest economy and the EU’s only nuclear-armed power is now closer than ever before to ushering in a far-right government for the first time, after Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) took a dramatic lead in the first stage of voting.
If the second-round vote on July 7 delivers a parliamentary majority for the National Rally — and forecasts suggest it’s possible — France will be in uncharted waters: The country would be governed, at least in part, by politicians who made their names sympathizing with Vladimir Putin while vowing to rip up the European Union, wage war on migration and quit NATO.
Now his centrist allies face enormous pressure to pull out of the race in many areas and advise their supporters to vote for the left-wing alliance, which includes far-left radicals, in an attempt to beat Le Pen.
The far-left France Unbowed party and its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has emerged as arguably an even greater foe for the centrists than Le Pen, after a year spent fighting in the National Assembly.
The clearest sign of the cordon sanitaire breaking came from Macron ally and former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, who explicitly called on voters to oppose the National Rally and France Unbowed, too.
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And to think, if they just listened to the voters and curbed immigration, this wouldnt have happened
Immigration isn’t the cause of the problems that the people of France have been facing. Reducing or ending immigration would make problems worse.
The problem is that rich, wealthy elites control the country for their own benefit, hoarding all of the resources for themselves. Then they blame immigrants for causing the problem instead.
If resources in france were equally distributed, everyone would have ~300,000 euros.
You are angry at the wrong people.
The immigration angle is bait and switch politicking. Has been for decades.
People feel economically stagnant and culturally disconnected.
Couldn't be the capitalist machine grinding you to dust while gnawing away any sort of social institutions or greater visions than "line goes up". It's clearly Juan or Abdul who are scrabbling to send a few dollars or Euros to their family. Excluding them is gonna roll back the clock to when a single worker could get a no-degree factory job straight out of high school and raise a sitcom-style family of four, you know!
Immigration does curb wage growth, while inflation continues to erode the middle class.
It is a real issue and refusing to address it won’t help centrists or the left stay in power anywhere.
"Curbed immigration" means people from the Middle East and Africa, right? If a lot of Canadians decided to emigrate, something tells me people like you would be much less upset.
If anyone needs proof about what you're saying: just compare the backlash against the EU taking in 1 million Syrian refugees (which lasted for years) vs the backlash against the EU taking in 4 million Ukrainian refugees (of which I've heard virtually no complaints).
That's literally what every French government has done for the past 30 years. But facts are not enough. You have to speak like the far right to convince. "Moderates" tried, but voters prefer the real thing to the copy.
They don't care that what they want is not possible and/or doesn't work.
The masses are asses
Problem is that most western democracies rely on those cheap migrants worker to fill most jobs that locals do not want to fill anymore for various reasons (physical difficulty, low wages, bad images).
So yeah, if you want cities filled with garbages, amazon packages that takes weeks to arrive, among other. Go on. Kick them all out.
Problem is that most western democracies rely on those cheap migrants worker to fill most jobs that locals do not want to fill anymore
WRONG.
It's supposed to be a market economy, if someone doesn't want to do the job for an advertised rate you're supposed to increase the rate until it becomes palatable.
Not import people to artificially keep wages and living conditions down for the working class.
So yeah, if you want cities filled with garbages, amazon packages that takes weeks to arrive, among other. Go on. Kick them all out.
If you want living conditions to continue to get worse and wages to spiral downwards until food completely unaffordable, keep importing people to keep the wages down, like you suggest.