Well put. You said,'In a 2017 interview, Marie Le Pen, a French fascist, defended Putin’s annexation of Crimea and said, “The policies I represent are those of Trump and Putin!” Her photo w/Putin is all over her campaign literature. Divisiveness sells.
French President Emmanuel Macron in contrast, is leading the EU in the diplomatic effort to end the war in Ukraine. This is not instant. Do I always agree with Macron? No. Is he the best electoral hope for France and Us today? Yes.
The Putin/Trump Axis is an international problem. Too end it we must look past our own hardwired divisiveness, to a big tent beneath which a variety of plants grow and bloom.
Where are the Democrats? Why hasn't someone asked why the Republicans voted against lowering the cost of insulin. Why? Why hasn't someone asked why 63 Republicans voted against a resolution to support NATO? Why? Why hasn't someone asked about the head of the Senate Republican campaign arm who put out a plan on paper that would raise taxes on half the country. The middle half. Where are the Democrats??? It is time to start speaking-out! Where the heck are they??
Frankly, there are some evil forces at work in this country and around the world. Mostly people seeking power and using cultural wedge issues to divide and conquer. It is so sad that less educated and socioeconomically deprived people fall for this phony/false rhetoric intended to play on their worst impulses! However, so far it is working for the far-right. We better start talking about what we on the left can do for people if we can get control of the government. There is so much we can do for people beginning with things like prescriptions drugs and saving the planet. However, we need to be in a position of strength. Currently there are two Senate members that are practicing Republicans in the Democratic Party that are stopping progress and hurting Pres. Biden's approval rating!
The French election is really a worldwide referendum on international cooperation on the one hand, as represented by left wing political parties, and isolationism based on nationalism by the right wing political parties on the other.
Biden-Scholz-Macron on the left, Trump-Putin-LePen on the right.
Both sides of this equation are predicated on mass immigration to feed the furnaces of economic growth and expansion, i.e., by people brought in through immigration from third world countries.
The left is using the immigrants as taxable income, employed or not, for supporting government programs. The right is shamelessly using the immigrants as cheap labor to be segregated, exploited, and ultimately discarded when their usefulness is over.
This is a moral travesty.
These immigrants are in a country where the language is different, the food is different, where social customs are different.
They’re mainly filling the jobs which no one in the host country feels is dignified to work in.
The employers are saying without the cheap labor supply, consumer prices would go through the roof. Politicians are saying without the tax revenue the immigrants generate, the infrastructure will continue to deteriorate.
I ask you: aren’t both conditions happening already?
It’s no wonder voter turnout is low in France!!!
And what a statement this state of affairs says about humanity in this age.
In Hillary Clinton's 1st interview after the 2016 election, she said that the thing that concerned her most, was the rise of authoritarianism around the world. That was before we would see the GOP line-up behind a man who said he believed Putin over the US intel agencies.
Next month CPAC is meeting in Budapest. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be the keynote. The EU has accused Orban of curbing media & judicial independence, enriching personal associates with public funds & recasting election laws to entrench his power.
So together with Le Pen & the upcoming French election, clearly Hillary had cause for concern.
Well put. You said,'In a 2017 interview, Marie Le Pen, a French fascist, defended Putin’s annexation of Crimea and said, “The policies I represent are those of Trump and Putin!” Her photo w/Putin is all over her campaign literature. Divisiveness sells.
French President Emmanuel Macron in contrast, is leading the EU in the diplomatic effort to end the war in Ukraine. This is not instant. Do I always agree with Macron? No. Is he the best electoral hope for France and Us today? Yes.
The Putin/Trump Axis is an international problem. Too end it we must look past our own hardwired divisiveness, to a big tent beneath which a variety of plants grow and bloom.
Where are the Democrats? Why hasn't someone asked why the Republicans voted against lowering the cost of insulin. Why? Why hasn't someone asked why 63 Republicans voted against a resolution to support NATO? Why? Why hasn't someone asked about the head of the Senate Republican campaign arm who put out a plan on paper that would raise taxes on half the country. The middle half. Where are the Democrats??? It is time to start speaking-out! Where the heck are they??
Thank Gawd! It's Sunday!!
GET THE FASCISTS OFF THE LISTS has arrived!
Frankly, there are some evil forces at work in this country and around the world. Mostly people seeking power and using cultural wedge issues to divide and conquer. It is so sad that less educated and socioeconomically deprived people fall for this phony/false rhetoric intended to play on their worst impulses! However, so far it is working for the far-right. We better start talking about what we on the left can do for people if we can get control of the government. There is so much we can do for people beginning with things like prescriptions drugs and saving the planet. However, we need to be in a position of strength. Currently there are two Senate members that are practicing Republicans in the Democratic Party that are stopping progress and hurting Pres. Biden's approval rating!
Thank you, Mary, for your post.
I also appreciate the phrase, "No updates this week.", that you added to your mentions of your "Glossary" pages. Thanks.
I hope Emmanuel Macron wins the French runoff.
The French election is really a worldwide referendum on international cooperation on the one hand, as represented by left wing political parties, and isolationism based on nationalism by the right wing political parties on the other.
Biden-Scholz-Macron on the left, Trump-Putin-LePen on the right.
Both sides of this equation are predicated on mass immigration to feed the furnaces of economic growth and expansion, i.e., by people brought in through immigration from third world countries.
The left is using the immigrants as taxable income, employed or not, for supporting government programs. The right is shamelessly using the immigrants as cheap labor to be segregated, exploited, and ultimately discarded when their usefulness is over.
This is a moral travesty.
These immigrants are in a country where the language is different, the food is different, where social customs are different.
They’re mainly filling the jobs which no one in the host country feels is dignified to work in.
The employers are saying without the cheap labor supply, consumer prices would go through the roof. Politicians are saying without the tax revenue the immigrants generate, the infrastructure will continue to deteriorate.
I ask you: aren’t both conditions happening already?
It’s no wonder voter turnout is low in France!!!
And what a statement this state of affairs says about humanity in this age.
FOR SHAME!!!
We can do better!!!
In Hillary Clinton's 1st interview after the 2016 election, she said that the thing that concerned her most, was the rise of authoritarianism around the world. That was before we would see the GOP line-up behind a man who said he believed Putin over the US intel agencies.
Next month CPAC is meeting in Budapest. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be the keynote. The EU has accused Orban of curbing media & judicial independence, enriching personal associates with public funds & recasting election laws to entrench his power.
So together with Le Pen & the upcoming French election, clearly Hillary had cause for concern.
Yes. She. Was.