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Donald Trump couldn't
hold his anxiety to support Marine Le Pen for
tomorrow's presidential election in France and actually gave us a
'tip' of what the establishment could do to boost her ratings:
“Donald Trump has claimed a terror attack that left a police
officer dead in Paris will 'probably help' far-right candidate Marine
Le Pen in France's upcoming election. While Mr Trump said he was not
explicitly endorsing Ms Le Pen, he believes she will be helped by the
attack that also saw two officers injured, because she's
the candidate who is 'strongest on borders, and she's the strongest
on what's been going on in France.'”
Indeed, the recent terror
attack in France came chronically 'conveniently'
close to the presidential election. The result could be Le Pen's
ratings to get a little boosting due to this event. Indeed
“A terror attack three days before France's presidential
election left voters on edge, a mood that could boost far-right
candidate Marine Le Pen, who wants to crack down on immigration. 'We
would like to believe there will be no impact on Sunday's elections,
but while in the voting booth, when the moment comes to cast the
ballot in the box, I think it will have a subliminal psychological
impact on some people,' said Alexis Madelenat, 42, a tech senior
executive in Paris.” Well, it's not the first time it happens.
As described
previously:
...
we had the November 2015 Paris attacks which was the main event that
boosted Marine Le Pen's percentage on the French regional elections,
and the San Bernardino shooting in California. Right
after the Bernardino incident, Le Pen's National Front marked an
unprecedented victory in the first round of the French regional
elections. Sarkozy wasn't so effective as it was Cameron in the UK to
attract voters with his rhetoric.
Seeing Le
Pen's huge success in France, and on the occasion of Bernardino
incident, Trump expanded his Far-Right rhetoric against Muslims.
Especially inside GOPs, Trump leads the race of the increasing
Right-wing conservatism in the US.
A huge race
has started between all the politicians across the Right-wing
spectrum in the West. In their effort to gain votes, everyone adopts
the extreme far-Right rhetoric, slipping dangerously towards racism
and fascism. But make no mistake, none of them will abandon the
big-capital neoliberal agenda, even if they have to retreat from
their "patriotic" stance after their possible election.
It seems
that the unexpected rapid rise of the Leftist leader, Jean-Luc
Mélenchon has terrified the neoliberal establishment in France and
other European power centers. The elites don't want to risk a
possible presence of Mélenchon in the second round. In case that
they lose their favorite candidate, the liberal Thatcherite and
former banker Emmanuel Macron, they certainly prefer the Far-Right Le
Pen against the Leftist Mélenchon.
Le Pen may
win due to the 'advantage' of anti-immigrant rhetoric against the
Left, especially in times where terror attacks have become routine in
France. Yet, it is highly doubtful that she will keep her promises to
fight the current status, if we see what happened with Donald Trump
in the United States only a few months after his election.
The
mouthpieces of the establishment are using another argument to
downgrade the Leftist option. They present Greece as a failure of the
Leftist government to fulfill its promises to the Greek people.
Alexis Tsipras is presented as a Leftist leader who surrendered
completely to the European neoliberal establishment, adopting
austerity measures. While this is not far from truth, most of the
times the mouthpieces deliberately ignore the fact that this has
happened under a clear blackmail of a sudden death for the Greek
economy by the ECB.
However,
France is not Greece and Mélenchon is certainly not Tsipras. The
specific weight of France could turn the European ship away from the
balance of terror between the nightmares of neoliberalism and the
Far-Right. It depends on the French people. It's time to go and vote
massively for the Left as the only hope towards a truly democratic
and humanitarian Europe.
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