The French Presidential Election
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Just to create a topic for those who may be interested in the developments in the French president campaign race.
Race has become a feature.
The right is split on how far racist it can be.
The left is split on assimilation or creolisation
“Officially, if you’re black or of Arab origin, Zemmour believes in ‘assimilation’: work hard, adapt to ‘French culture’, and you can be French ‘like the rest’. In reality, it seems some Zemmourists will always see you as ‘less French’. And these are supposedly the more moderate, publicly acceptable faces of the campaign.”
Capitalism has existed for more than 300 years and still, we have not learned that it is the cause of all our problems, at the present, with so much technology we are more ignorant and we have not learned that nationalism is worst than the rat poison. Instead of moving forward, we are moving backward
The French Communist Party anti-green populism — meat and nuclear power. Pro-police
He came up with the term “roussellement” – a play on “ruissellement”, the French word for trickle-down economics – to describe his own economic platform. A Keynesian proposal to stimulate domestic demand through wage hikes,
Roussel has proven adept at the art of “dressing up something old as something new”. He has a simple message: “You don’t need to be a Communist to vote Fabien Roussel.”
“I’m fed up with a left that makes people feel guilty all the time,” he told French newspaper Libération. “I don’t want the left-wing politics of the Greens, who lecture the French all the time, who make them feel guilty for eating meat, for using their cars, for building their homes in the countryside, for flying the national flag.”
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