Alienation in an Alien Nation: Michel Houellebecq Explains the True Horror of French Politics
This coming Sunday, July 14th, is Bastille Day, the annual celebration of the royal prison-fortress in question being stormed by a radical mob back in 1789, marking the real beginning of the French Revolution. In 2024, the political revolution had occurred upon the previous two Sundays, June 30th and July 7th, when the French electorate had rebelled against the 21st-century ancien régime of President Emmanuel “Let Them Eat Cake” Macron, first of all by voting for the supposedly “far Right” National Rally of Marine Le Pen, and then for a more authentically far-Left “New Popular Front” electoral alliance between Communists, Greens, Islamists and other assorted racaille, to keep the Rally out of office. Come the next French Presidential election due in 2027, King Macron himself may well be electorally guillotined and Le Pen become the nation’s new Queen.
Or, then again, maybe something else revolutionary in nature could occur – France may descend into outright civil war. At least, that was the warning of Jupiter Macron: vote for anyone other than the grown-up, rational centrists like him, and there would be immediate bloodshed. Strange, really. When Donald Trump warned of a “bloodbath” in the U.S. car industry should Biden win America’s own Presidential election earlier this year, he was spuriously accused of inciting mass violence. Why wasn’t Macron monstered by the media similarly? Because, unlike with Trump, the mainstream Western media are overwhelmingly on Macron’s side.
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More on the rigged French election and how ‘democracy’ isn’t worth the paper it’s written on; ”The withdrawals of 280 candidates from the left or Macron’s party were crucial to facilitating the victory of the strongest of these two candidates over Marine Le Pen’s party’s candidate in the second round. This was an absolutely unprecedented situation. To compare, in the parliamentary elections four years ago, there were only eight such withdrawals. Such tactics reveal a troubling manipulation of democratic norms under the guise of a so-called “republican pact” in action for over four decades — Initially a bipartisan effort to sideline the far-right — it now primarily benefits Macron and the left, perpetuating a duopoly of power. Do such elections meet the requirements of democracy? Formally, yes; practically, no. It is a rigged democracy, in which the two largest forces seeking to marginalize the third can rule alternately indefinitely. Moreover, voters of these two privileged blocs also accept this arrangement. Before the elections, there was much doubt about the overt persuasion of leading players of the French national football team to prevent the right’s victory. Another factor that is increasingly working in favor of the left and liberals is the growing share of votes from… Read more »
Much as I regret the result I think it’s a distortion to claim the election was rigged and that democratic norms were manipulated. The French people made their choice and significantly more seem to want mass immigration than don’t.
Well not really. In what realm would you withdraw such a large number of candidates so that you can form an alliance then sit back and call that ”fair”. If this is the tactic they’re going to use time and again it won’t matter that Le Pen continues to have the highest majority vote because she will always be trumped by the others sticking together so they can merge and block her. Then like the article says, the right don’t have a hope in hell of ever triumphing in an election. You’d have to really do some spin on the meaning of the word ‘democracy’ to give this legitimacy. Then there’s the mass media hate campaign to coerce voters…Nobody in the French football team are ever going to come out in support of a party that’s anti-immigration are they? Just to name one very influential body.
You don’t bite the hand that feeds, so I can see highly diverse France always being governed by Leftards, especially when they resort to such underhand tactics in order to maintain power. Something really drastic would have to happen for it to be otherwise.
I think almost every voter had the chance to vote for an RN candidate. 30something % chose to do so, the rest didn’t. They had their chance.
I fear you responses are, to me, somewhat politicised and sound almost of what you would expect from a BBC pundit. To say they had their chance is a little disingenuous, as some will never change their political hue regardless of whether their candidate is a donkey or an ass.
A missed vote or a no show is seen as a missed opportunity, and not necessarily as a potential vote of no confidence in the system. I judge the comments by Mog’s as a fair interpretation of the events in France as being rigged. I will also add the the politicization of the individual in this country is marked and encouraged by the absence of anything other than what the MSN declare, and is having a direct effect on the people as a whole. However I am glad to say, there are some who are still a free thinking individuals resisting politicization.
BBC pundit? Are you having a giraffe? If you had read the comments I’ve been making on this site since 2020 you’d know what my views are on the BBC and many other topics.
A rigged election is one in which certain people are prevented from standing or voting, or the votes are not counted correctly. More people than not voted against the RN. How is that rigged? Because it didn’t give the result we wanted? We have to face the fact that we are in a minority and that most people either presumably approve of mass immigration or think somehow those other parties are going to stop it or they are asleep or stupid. That’s a bug in the electorate- one that was exploited quite openly by those opposing RN and something that anyone paying attention would have picked up- and if they missed it then they should bloody well wake up.
The same applies to the UK. I think 14% of those voted supported reform.
pressed the wrong button, I replied to me rather that to you.
Perhaps the BBC pundit reference was a tad below the belt, and by your reaction to it may potentially be used as a slur to those on the left by those viewed as being on the right or Nazi’s. A base BBC pundit, as perhaps Shakespeare might say.
The comments of this site today and in the past reflect a general disquiet in our political system and everything in that entails, to some degree or another.
Well my point remains that it wasn’t “rigged” according to my definition. How would you define “rigged”?
Very well argued.
“I judge the comments by Mog’s as a fair interpretation of the events in France as being rigged.”
Yes.
Most on here accept that the 2020 US elections were rigged and yet we are expected to believe that European elections are all above board. Bullshit.
I have been involved in every election since 2019 and our elections are corrupted. The postal voting system in particular is a mess of mosque initiated manipulation.
In our constituency this year when we asked for the breakdown of postal votes by ward we were told the figures were not available as they “had all been mixed in.”
For reasons I won’t go in to that is blatant nonsense if not an outright lie.
George Galloway won his Rochdale by-election where 43% of all votes cast were postal. Anybody suggesting there is not fraud in UK elections hasn’t been there. I have.
I noticed they took a number from my voting slip, I consented but was caught off guard as they say. Maybe the reason is mundane but maybe not.
The French election system doesn’t use proportional representation of political parties and hence, terms like highest majority vote¹ have no meaning in France.
BTW, that’s another thing US-centric ‘righties’ have lifted from their political opponents. To this date, the German SPD maintains that elections in the German empire were democratically unfair because their largest vote share didn’t translate into the number of MPs they felt entitled to have because this voting system also didn’t use PR.
¹ Really largest vote share.
Seconded 👍
Which is why I believe France more than any other country in Europe is most likely to fall into civil war. If it does the conflagration will probably spread and quickly.
Operation Gladio 2
Claming that democratic norms were manipulated is nonsense. They could have been broken or silently changed but not manipulated as they’re abstract and informal. This is deliberately misleading use of language (in all likeliness) to suggest vote rigging has been going on which isn’t the case.
We’re in the somewhat miserable situation that we’re can just chose whose lies we’re willing to accept. For me, the choice is “none” because I don’t really see a practical difference between different people trying to fool me by fabricating stuff I’ll hopefully like. They’re probably fabricating the stuff their paymasters want to push and should these change suddenly change their opinions, rmx.news might well start to promote Net Zero and the Gordian drastically reduced immigration of muslims.
“when you can just import new voters and promise them social benefits”
I suppose they can only get away with that for a long as they can print money. Surely that too will not be enough with debt rising and the Dollar on the way out. But much damage can be done before that. Scorched Earth comes to mind.
the EU’s main institutions also forming without transparent democratic structures.That is why Ursula von der Leyen can be certain that she will be reappointed as the head of the European Commission without a single vote from any citizen.
Von der Leyen will remain in her present position as EU adminstrative functionary if the council of the elected heads of the governments of the EU member states again propose her as candidate and if the EU parliament citizens recently elected approves of that via vote.
These ‘alternate news sources’ crying ‘democracy in danger’ all the time (just like the establishment lefties do as well, BTW) would be a lot more credible if their politically motivated ‘innacuracies’ (aka ‘lies’) weren’t so transparent.
Democracy requires thinking people participating in informed discussion. It requires ‘free speech’.
Free Speech, not to promote Revolution, just to point out that there isn’t a Climate Emergency due to CO2, it’s our Sun, that stopping North Sea oil exploration (implementation due shortly) will destroy what’s left of British Industry, that wool change Britain for the worse, and the rest of the lost topics, is absent, not because we are prohibited from speaking, it’s because most can’t even think about these subjects.
Similarly, voters that are told who to vote for when their candidate has been withdrawn by the hierarchy, and comply without thinking, are not participating in Democracy.
“Policy means little when you can just import new voters and promise them social benefits.”
A political manoeuvre which Bliar adopted with great enthusiasm, which the tories maintained and even ramped up and which is now being promoted by Kneel as if it were a Boxing Day sale.
But F. the electorate.
I predict that, before long, the Establishment will start talking about possible electoral reform in the UK since FPTP is being abandoned by the electorate and it “unfortunately” resulted in 5 Reform MPs. (Only 60% bothered to vote). Just over 4 million voted for Reform, after an Establishment campaign of systematic smearing.
They’ll push the French system – because they believe it will guarantee a permanent left-wing alliance.
I claim to have solved these problems with my concept of Fuzzy Democracy (www.fuzzydemocracy.eu). The gatekeeper at Daily Sceptic is not interested.
Last century this solution was not feasible. Now it would be possible for citizens to avoid tactical voting, to avoid parties, and still make every vote count.
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. (
HouellebecqLuke).What happened to Houellebecq’s novel about France after successful islamization? If we want a dystopian prophecy, that would be the way to go as the technocrats and radicals of yestercentury (communists of the common garden varieties) are really just temporarily holding court in the antechamber of our upcoming overlords. That is, while the popping-contraceptives-like-bonbons decadent¹ descendants of Europa’s past greatness still make up the majority of society?
¹ According to Nietzsche, the decadent is fundamentally anti-life. That’s certainly the credo of a society which brainwashes teenage girls into dousing themselves with hormone pills paid for by the state so that they’re ‘free’ to have sex with imbecile small scale drug dealers of Caribbean descent.
“the empty world we and our technocratic leadership caste have so foolishly crafted to live in”
Dr Dave Martin is more positive re TPTB in an interview with Russell Brand. He said they’re losing regarding the share prices for the jabs etc. Bird Flu, they have been pushing that, how’s that going…….Oct or Sept 2019….”there will be an accidental or deliberate release of a virus” WHO. Check out the interview.
I enjoy Steven Tucker’s articles and on the whole, I concur, but he does go on a bit too lon.g
Agree. Fortunately ChatGPT will happily summarise them into just a few succinct paragraphs. Also I find his byline “…the author of over 10 books…” slightly comedic. Can’t he count past 10?