The leader of France’s Republicans party has said he would be open to an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in snap French elections. Such an alliance would break a decades-old taboo.
Eric Ciotti, the head of the conservative French political party Les Republicans (LR), astounded political observers Tuesday by suggesting it was time to drop the longstanding taboo against working with the country’s far-right National Rally (NR) party in hopes of taking power in snap elections called by centrist President Emmanuel Macron in the wake of Sunday’s European parliamentary elections.
Speaking on TF1 TV, Ciotti said: “We say the same things, so let’s stop making up imagined opposition. This is what the vast majority of our voters want. They’re telling us, 'reach a deal.”
In response, several of Ciotti’s fellow party members spoke out against allowing former NR President Marine Le Pen anywhere near the levers of power.
Is it that the neoliberal / capitalist class that has effectively captured the reins of not only the right, but also any major supposedly “left” leaning parties in order to shore up all possible avenues wherein their obscene wealth could be otherwise curtailed and used to cover the cost of increasingly worsened privatized (but previously robust in at least European cases) public services and goods - of which the loss of has ripened an increasingly angry and socioeconomically desperate and uneducated populace for being fooled into believing their plight caused by said neoliberal/capitalists was instead due to marginalized scapegoats offered by demagogue faux populists (aka Fascists)?
…Or are you inferring some dumb racist shit?
Sorry if I’m coming off as hostile with that bit, but when I hear someone start to say something about something being “not what intellectuals want to hear,” that’s kind of a red flag for me… since I defer by default to educated experts and “intellectuals” when it comes to anything I’m not already well-informed on…
For example, I’m a goofball who thinks asking a “non-intellectual” when it comes to accounting at least… like say my plumber for financial advice… or maybe a “non-intellectual in the subject of mechanical engineering” with my doctor - for how to fix my car up… would usually be a pretty fucking stupid thing to do… but I know some people who think a dipshit reality show fail-son cheating blowhard who somehow bankrupted a casino should be in charge of who we could ostensibly drop nukes on, so what do I know? 🤷♂️
Hi ho word salad man It’s that common everyday people actually show up to vote. And those people have been being ignored. They will go more and more right.
you mean toddlers throwing a tanty want to burn jews and blacks? I dunno, but I think your worldview needs more nuance.