> of the 60-odd percent of people who had to change their vote between two rounds, only 1% decided to go full-fascist Nearsighted statement that completely occ

> of the 60-odd percent of people who had to change their vote between two rounds, only 1% decided to go full-fascist Nearsighted statement that completely occult the massive fear-mongering political and media propaganda that happened during the two election rounds. > The only reason the National Front is ahead today is because of a massive, 10 year "de-demonization" process, that went up to full exclusion of the former parter leader. Another sign of nearsightedness. The reasons the FN is so popular nowadays have a lot more to do with the Calais jungle, the recent murder of a priest, the beheading of a business man, the recent vote on life insurance and CODEVIs barring owners to cash their policies/accounts "if the circumstances permit it" (Sapin 2 law), the other vote setting a limit on how much people can expect to be saved in the event of a bank crash (EUR 100,000, cumulative over several accounts), the constant deployment of military in the country, the numerous wars (Libya, Mali, Syria, ...), the fact that migrants are given priority over French citizen for social housing, ... I could go on all day. It's such a fallacy to call for the devil while shunning from public discussion all the problems that lower and middle class citizens are living every day. The same thing happened during the Brexit votation. The same thing is happening in the US with Trump. It's probably a sign of our time where so-called "liberal intellectuals" would resort to fear-mongering rather than address actual issues and risk jeopardizing their own social situations. PS: In a famous interview, former socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin clearly stated that there never was a fascist menace in France and that "demonizing" the FN was a ploy from President Mitterrand to divert the attention of the people from the waves of privatizations that the socialist government undertook in the mid-80s. [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY3jUuFBWIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY3jUuFBWIM