French election: Macron 'defeats Le Pen to become president
I'm not a France watcher so I can't say I have any particular opinion about either Le Pen or Macron. Macron won basically 65% to her 35%, so there is that. The interaction with the current events in the ME will probably tell a lot, and there's the question of Macron's support of the EU and how Brexit is going to ring with France in the economic chambers.
I'm not optimistic. I'd like to be able to look at the big picture, the geo-political and the economic perspectives and gain an appreciation of where the world's military posture is headed in the next 5-10 years. I have a feeling which is not altogether uncommon in old men that we're about to re-live one of the world's great and horrible war epics. An epic from which our country will be forever changed on the other side. Hopefully, I am like Seneca: "There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives!" Quote:
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Europe enjoys being "ruled", by either kings and queens or a corrupt left-wing socialist/communist groups.
A big win for the muslims, now they take over france. |
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La Pan is very anti-muslim,, I think the Muslims throw all their weight to Moron..
Frau Merkel and the 4th Reich (EU) has captured France for the 3rd time.. They were screaming the Ruskies rigged the election.. Not any more.. I wonder if voter fraud investigation(s) will quietly disappear like the smoke from Choom gang joints.. :munchin Just read this little gem. It looks like the French countryman were not all that interested in the elections?? Quote:
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Rising Rightwing Millennials and Generation Z
It's more of a generational thing. While millennials and generation Z get a lot of hate, they're actually becoming more conservative while the boomers are stuck in their old ways. Give France more time for millennials/gen Z to grow, then we'll see the mass right wing movement of elected officials. Hopefully the Muslim population isn't out of control by then.
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Is your take that the Muslim population in France is "under control"? |
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That and the published riots and no-go ghetto(S), lead me to believe that France is precariously close to collapse.. The apathy showed by the voter turnout is also indicative of a failing system. :munchin |
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Judging from this research I'd say France is finished if their Muslim population reaches around 20%. Before they come close to hitting that number, Le Pen or someone like her will get elected and clean house. Still hope but just sucks the change can't come sooner, more French will continue to suffer because of it but I see them prevailing in the long run. Either that or a Crusade 2.0 will happen which is also fine with me. Quote:
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Merkel's little puppet is now an ally in punishing the other Euro states who don't want to play in her end-game; and who may look for support from a different azimuth... literally. |
France new boss has an interesting story with his much older wife that started when he was her student while attending high school.
If she's a hard core leftist, that will make for jucier Manchurian Candidate stories than with President Obama. As I understand it, poor voter participation left a LOT of folks on the sidelines in France. Possibly the lowest turnout since 1981, but before all ballots have been fully counted and compared. France also seems to have far lower big brand social media participation(Facebook, Twitter, Instagram). France has always been a Western outlier in terms of mass media, entertainment content, and internet/social media. At one point France had their own domestic "internet" called Minitel that still had 10 million connections less than a decade ago, before it was shut down capitulating to the global internet. Despite all the hate directed at major internet social media properties, particularly their leadership/shareholders......which way do users actually vote? France a western outlier(under consumption of non-French western social/media content). France has an outlier(to the trend) election. Correlation/causation? |
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