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vanimy · 7 years

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Even if no one cares... I’m going to talk about the French elections again...

Because I already know how these elections are going to be talked about. And I want the two or three people who will read this to realize that this isn’t as simple as everyone makes it out to be. And if no one reads, it’s kind of a diary in a way because I have to get this off my chest.

The second round opposes Macron to Le Pen. On one hand you have a young guy who looks like the next Trudeau (younger than even Kennedy). On the other hand you have a racist homophobic piece of s****. Let’s face it, Macron will probably win, all the polls say he’ll get about 60% of the votes come next Sunday.

So we should all rejoice, right?

Nope. Because the country is fractured like I’ve never seen before. Apart from the 2002 elections (I will get back to them, the contrast is really striking) you usually voted for either one of the main candidates (socialist party or the republicans basically the left party or the right party) during the first round. Sometimes you would vote for a more radical expression of your beliefs, like for a radical left party but for the second round, even if you weren’t quite as enthusiastic, you would vote for one of the two main parties left without feeling like you were betrayed.

2002 was supposed to be an accident. The guy from the left party had a terrible campaign, leading a lot of voters to more radical parties during the first round as a way of protesting because everyone knew the guy would be there for the second round. Except he wasn’t. Le Pen 1st was because the votes were too divided (father of the now Le Pen, yeah it’s a fucking dynasty). Everywhere in France everyone was flabbergasted, in shock. I remember thinking of Hitler and 1932/1933 and being completely paralyzed. People -especially the youths- were demonstrating everywhere in France spontaneously. The message was clear. No to Le Pen. The guy from the right party was elected with 82% of the votes. I repeat. 82% of the votes.

That’s when things started to go downhill. Instead of trying to understand why Le Pen managed to get to the second round (apart from the fact a lot of French are racist scumbags that is), instead of acknowledging that the new President Elect won by a landslide because a lof of people leaning to the left party voted for him, the new President increased his right party politics, not paying attention to who voted for him in the first place. The only good thing he did with his mandate was to refuse the Iraq war in 2003.

Then Sarkozy happened (right party). No comment. He managed to really annoy a lot of people and was basically kicked out of office during the 2012 elections. But Le Pen had grown since the last elections. Because the medias and politicians talked about immigration relentlessly. Because Sarkozy shamelessly ripped off parts of Le Pen’s program. The French People voted against a European Treaty, let’s make the Parliament vote for the exact same text right after that. Meanwhile the media suddenly decided that Le Pen wasn’t all that bad, invited her (it had already changed to a ‘her’ back then), never contradicted her. And would you talk about the bad Muslims again please? And the raging insecurity in our streets? Homicides are reaching an all time low, going down since the 19th century but hey, that kind of speech doesn’t sell papers, right?

Then the left party won the 2012 elections against Sarkozy like I said. And what did Hollande do? Apart from gay marriage, he did a lot of what Sarkozy would have done more or less. Fueling Le Pen’s talk, who keeps saying the left and right are all the same.... And let’s create a polemic around the burkini, shall we? And let’s invite Le Pen over and over again and let’s make sure to say that people who spew racist stuff are just angry and aren’t racist scumbags.... Regional elections happened next in 2015. The social party gets a serious defeat. Le Pen is higher than before. Everyone starts to call for the useful vote once again, like in 2002. How did it feel like for people who are left leaning?

Call to the left voters, would you put aside your convinctions AGAIN please? We will use your votes to get elected then spit on you.

Thanks,

The right party.

Results? The right party wins in almost all regions thanks to the infamous useful vote but the margin is smaller. Le Pen makes 40% of the votes in some regions. Did people learn after that? Abow how we went from Le Pen at 18% in the 2002 presidential elections to 40% in some regions of France in 2015? Nooo... Everything’s fine, she didn’t win after all, right? Then we get into the 2017 election era.

The four main candidates were : Le Pen, Macron (candidate of the right, the left party, mmh, doesn’t matter, let’s say the Bank Candidate, it will be clearer) Fillon (right party) and Melenchon (radical left party). Le Pen’s high up in the polls, before even Macron? No one bats an eyelash. But Melenchon -this dangerous communist *eyeroll* who wanted to change the institutions, build an ecological program and so on- climbs in the latest polls? The whole media start to harp on him, the extremists are all the same, they say, Melenchon=Le Pen, you could read. Melenchon=Chavez=Castro. Hollande starts saying it would be disastrous for the country. Not the prospect of having Le Pen in the second round, mind you. No, the prospect of having to vote for Melenchon against Le Pen. Never mind that you had Fillon still lurking around, corrupted to the core as he was (a criminal investigation has been launched against him). Second round comes. Le Pen is there. No one bats an eyelash. The so-called reporters are fucking BEAMING on television. I kid you not. I still remember the drawn faces in 2002 but this year they were beaming. And all of a sudden, the media start to say Le Pen is dangerous, and will you please vote for Macron? Sign there as usual, left voters, thanks. But this election is unlike any other. No left party or right party left for the second round. Every party had a radical line. Youths demonstrate but very little and to say.... No to Macron and no to Le Pen. Instead of trying to... IDK understand why, the media start to say these youths don’t know their history and should go back to class. Meanwhile Macron doesn’t make a single move to gather people around him. He goes to a fancy restaurant the night of the first round, parties all night, thinks he’s already elected (Sarkozy had at least the decency to wait after the second round to do the exact same thing) and says that every vote for him means you agree with him and his program. Melenchon doesn’t call for a vote for Le Pen but doesn’t call for a vote for Macron either because he knows people who voted for him are sick and tired of this stupidity. And in a complete turnabout, people are more angry with Melenchon and people who don’t want to vote for the elections than with Le Pen and the people willing to vote for her! The media are harping on Melenchon 24/24. My own sister posts messages on Facebook basically insulting people who don’t want to vote for either candidate.

And I’m like... what? Aren’t we supposed to still live in a democracy? Why do people wake up about the growing racism in this country only when Le Pen gets to the second round? Then everyone proceeds to do the same thing all over again, wash rinse repeat. Instead of trying to put a fractured country back together, Macron is only fracturing it deeper. He goes on with his arrogant speeches and people wonder why we hesitate? 15 years ago my vote would’ve been clear from the get go. 15 years later I’m tired of the media manipulating the elections so blatantly. I’m tired of people not looking at the problem in the face. Let’s say Macron wins and then what? We’ll put our heads in the sand again? Until Le Pen finally goes through and wins. Because that’s what happens when you play with fire. All politicians have been using Le Pen as a scarecrow. But if she wins then democracy is gone. The latter is why I’m going to vote for Macron because I’m dreading Le Pen in power, because I don’t want minorities to be harrassed or worse. But I’m going to vote with my shoulders dropping and feeling disgusted. Like a lot of people who didn’t vote for him in the first round. Which makes an awful lot of people since only 24% voted for him in the first place.

So I’m appalled. And frankly disgusted of what’s going on right now.

No, the Macron vote won’t change anything. The country is divided, is struck upon with each terrorist attack and Macron won’t help matters when it comes to fight against Le Pen and her vile ideas.

I’ve been saying it for a long time now... Smells like the 30s. And people are even more apathetic now than they used to be then. Ugh.

/Rambling finally over.

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