Le Pen is testing a platform that could reshape America First

[Dans La Lune]

As I mentioned many months ago, the worst imaginable nightmare scenario is the union of leftist politics with far-right fascist politics. In other words, you can have social spending, welfare, healthcare, etc... but these benefits must go to the dominant class of people in society first. It's HERE:

Factbox: Far-right Le Pen cloaks nationalist policies with social veneer

French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has made it to the second round of the presidential election and though she lags behind President Emmanuel Macron, polls show a much tighter race than in 2017 when he beat her convincingly.

www.reuters.com

If this takes hold in America, the Democrats will be in terrible shape, as many people will sacrifice their neighbor for a better quality of life. You have no idea what this could unleash. And this IS the next play for the far-right in America.

 

[Mycroft]

As I mentioned many months ago, the worst imaginable nightmare scenario is the union of leftist politics with far-right fascist politics. In other words, you can have social spending, welfare, healthcare, etc... but these benefits must go to the dominant class of people in society first. It's HERE:

Factbox: Far-right Le Pen cloaks nationalist policies with social veneer

French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has made it to the second round of the presidential election and though she lags behind President Emmanuel Macron, polls show a much tighter race than in 2017 when he beat her convincingly.

www.reuters.com

If this takes hold in America, the Democrats will be in terrible shape, as many people will sacrifice their neighbor for a better quality of life. You have no idea what this could unleash. And this IS the next play for the far-right in America.

So...reading through her policies and positions, it's pretty clear she considers the "dominant class" that you mention to be "French citizens". Yes, I can see how that could resonate with people who are having to compete with non-citizens in their own country.

But don't worry about that kind of thing happening in the US. Our "social spending, etc." isn't quite as pervasive as it seems to be in France and our non-citizen problems aren't like those in France. France has a lot of problems with "legal immigrants". We have a lot of problems with "illegal immigrants". Illegal immigrants shouldn't be receiving any social spending in the first place.

 

[Gateman_Wen]

As I mentioned many months ago, the worst imaginable nightmare scenario is the union of leftist politics with far-right fascist politics. In other words, you can have social spending, welfare, healthcare, etc... but these benefits must go to the dominant class of people in society first. It's HERE:

Factbox: Far-right Le Pen cloaks nationalist policies with social veneer

French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has made it to the second round of the presidential election and though she lags behind President Emmanuel Macron, polls show a much tighter race than in 2017 when he beat her convincingly.

www.reuters.com

If this takes hold in America, the Democrats will be in terrible shape, as many people will sacrifice their neighbor for a better quality of life. You have no idea what this could unleash. And this IS the next play for the far-right in America.

Aren't they already doing this here?

 

[Nomad4Ever]

So...reading through her policies and positions, it's pretty clear she considers the "dominant class" that you mention to be "French citizens". Yes, I can see how that could resonate with people who are having to compete with non-citizens in their own country.

Naw it’s pretty clear that to her only White Christian natives are “French”. She doesn’t consider legal immigrants as French or real citizens. One of her campaign policies is to deport legal immigrants if they commit a crime.

 

[Mycroft]

Naw it’s pretty clear that to her only White Christian natives are “French”. She doesn’t consider legal immigrants as French or real citizens. One of her campaign policies is to deport legal immigrants if they commit a crime.

shrug...

The US will deport a legal immigrant if they commit a crime. Is that a bad thing?

And why should any immigrant be considered a citizen if they haven't gone through the process to become a citizen?

My daughter-in-law was an immigrant...until she swore an oath and became a naturalized citizen of the US. Before she did that, she never considered herself to be a citizen and nobody else did either.

Looks to me like Le Pen is trying to make France a bit more like the US is right now.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

So...reading through her policies and positions, it's pretty clear she considers the "dominant class" that you mention to be "French citizens". Yes, I can see how that could resonate with people who are having to compete with non-citizens in their own country.

But don't worry about that kind of thing happening in the US. Our "social spending, etc." isn't quite as pervasive as it seems to be in France and our non-citizen problems aren't like those in France. France has a lot of problems with "legal immigrants". We have a lot of problems with "illegal immigrants". Illegal immigrants shouldn't be receiving any social spending in the first place.

French Citizens or ethnic French?

 

[Mycroft]

French Citizens or ethnic French?

I don't see anything making that distinction in the OP's article.

 

[Dans La Lune]

I don't see anything making that distinction in the OP's article.

Le Pen is viciously anti-immigrant (not just anti-illegal immigrant) and anti-Muslim.

 

[Jezcoe]

There are quite a few in France that doesn’t want to admit that it is a multicultural society as a result of their colonial past.

They would rather everyone think of themselves as French with some French considered more French than others.