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> If your goal is to enact your political vision or your policy agenda, left, right or centrist, there is only one place, and that place is the Presidency. It'

• Bayart 5y ago
  That won't happen, and even if it did it wouldn't matter.
• southerntofu 5y ago
  > It's all fun and games until Marine Le Pen gets elected... It was never fun and games. The 5th republic was built on fascist legacy: De Gaulle was a famous authoritarian who used his powers to crush various forms of popular insurrection (Algerian independence movement, may 68...). He was famously behind the secretive "SAC" (Services d'Action Civique) fascist militias used to physically crush opposition, and oversaw the same police préfets who operated under Pétain apply the same nazi techniques against anti-colonial struggles. Marine le Pen may not be in power, but her ideas have been for a long time. Also interesting to note that the most extreme measures proposed by the Front National (founded by her father) in the 80s are now mainstream political agenda from both "left" and "right" [0]. [0] Actually all the candidates presented by TV are authoritarian right-wing (capitalist). But some claim to be left-wing despite proposing/enacting exactly the same politics. Mélenchon who is presented as extreme left is, in standards from a few decades ago, a centrist or maybe a moderate center-left; only with NPA and LO we start to see some left wing talking points (abolition of managers/ownership, equal sharing of resources for all..) but these are not the people the media give voice to