@zeyra
Le Pen. Like her father before her, and everybody she associates with.
The explains more clearly that I could. There is never a good reason to vote for a fascist.
It is a catastrophic mistake to grab onto the “they are all the same” meme. It is nonsense, and the French left’s refusal to endorse Macron is as stupid as the American left’s (such as it is) refusal to get behind Clinton or our left’s bone-headed attachment to struggles that were lost in the 1980s.
Is Macron and bit of a bureaucrat, with a banking background? Yes. Does he think the gassing of 6 million Jews was a pretty good thing? No. That’s Le Pen. And that is the only measure that matters.
So there is also never a good reason to fail to oppose a fascist. Fascism isn’t just an idea. It is a war on civilisation. There’s a reason ISIS wants Le Pen to win. They want the war too. With a more reasonable right wing candidate – an old school French conservative, say – then there would be much more to it. But not with Le Pen.
Oh, and France isn’t screwed. You are at an age where you are most vulnerable to emotions and thoughts that make you feel that fear. Don’t worry – I’m pretty sure everyone here has been through it (some of us quite a long time ago!).
But France is a bastion of civilisation – that’s why ISIS’s crazies attack it, because they fear civilisation. Le Pen would give them more than they could possibly dream of.
@mudlark
Experience has taught me that placards are a very unreliable metric.
