tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3241927925664320715..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Oedipus in ParisStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-1424494408973046322017-04-30T14:12:12.477-07:002017-04-30T14:12:12.477-07:00Here's an interesting article "Is there a...Here's an interesting article "Is there a case for Le Pen?"<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/opinion/sunday/is-there-a-case-for-le-pen.html<br />---<br />She is right that France as a whole, recent immigrants as well as natives, would benefit from a sustained mass-immigration halt.<br /><br />She is right that the European Union has given too much unaccountable power to Brussels and Berlin and favored financial interests over ordinary citizens.<br /><br />And while many of her economic prescriptions are half-baked, her overarching critique of the euro is correct: Her country and her continent would be better off without it.<br />---<br /><br />May 7th isn't much time for more debate but if Le Pen can keep herself on message of the core failings of current policy, without the racism and blindest fears, she can do much better than her father's 19%, and if she can get 40+% of the vote, even losing means politicians had better listen.<br /><br />I don't have the knowledge to bet her potential, but I'd say if she exceeds 32-34%, I'd count that a message win.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51987908441469566562017-04-28T17:24:56.893-07:002017-04-28T17:24:56.893-07:00Clearly Macron would be best to try to humor the r...Clearly Macron would be best to try to humor the right, and face head-on their issues with more sensible solutions than xenophobia and demonization, but I imagine the National Front is so easy to mock, people would prefer to feel superior and deny the issues are important, and thus keeping the National Front alive and kicking for another year."<br />He and the opposition cannot do this for it would expose all of their positions to open debate in which they could not survive. In essence they must do what they have always done and it has been and will be the end of them.<br />Christian bloghttps://penmyemotions.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-55999638446005419232017-04-26T06:03:48.279-07:002017-04-26T06:03:48.279-07:00AO
"I might say National Front party has alre...AO<br />"I might say National Front party has already won, by getting their issues front and center to their Nation. And if it was possible to address some of their issues slightly better, we'd all feel safer."<br />That is what I think a lot of people are missing.<br />"Clearly Macron would be best to try to humor the right, and face head-on their issues with more sensible solutions than xenophobia and demonization, but I imagine the National Front is so easy to mock, people would prefer to feel superior and deny the issues are important, and thus keeping the National Front alive and kicking for another year."<br />He and the opposition cannot do this for it would expose all of their positions to open debate in which they could not survive. In essence they must do what they have always done and it has been and will be the end of them.<br />Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13642228725661059539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-81096505228493562802017-04-25T15:50:39.442-07:002017-04-25T15:50:39.442-07:00Very sly, mocking both a Freudian fantasy, and a m...Very sly, mocking both a Freudian fantasy, and a man would-be leader for appearing to be following a Freudian fantasy.<br /><br />It is interesting France has America backwards, with the Right leading with a woman, and the left leading with a man.<br /><br />Coincidentally Melania Trump is also about 24 years younger than Donald, but of course they didn't marry until 2005, when she was ~35, and he ~59, so their age ratio was a more respectable 1.7. And anyway, it's expected that a woman wants to marry her father, since he will be a good provider.<br /><br />And let's not forget Donald Trump's talk about his favorite daughter, Ivanka, like when he was asked what he has most in common with his daughter is sex. But again, men fantasizing about their hot daughter is as American as apple pie, or at least in some circles apparently.<br /><br />So with all that confusing playboy behavior, I can see the value in distracting attention from our new Conservative standard bearer.<br /><br />And on the other side, Marine also has a very interesting relationship with her father, following in his footsteps by joining his ultra-right party, and then being forced to evict her own father from the party to try to make it respectable when he was clearly off the deep end of paranoia where he couldn't not take anything impersonally. Everything that happens reinforces his own view of a world out of control, while refusing to look in the mirror at his own inability to stay in control.<br /><br />It seems fair to presume that Marine will lose in a landslide, even if not as badly as her father did in a similar situation. Obviously it would have been better if a couple 20-something parties were to "agree to agree" to get a seat in the final two, but it does look like French politics is too proud to find common ground for greater good. <br /><br />I might say National Front party has already won, by getting their issues front and center to their Nation. And if it was possible to address some of their issues slightly better, we'd all feel safer.<br /><br />Clearly Macron would be best to try to humor the right, and face head-on their issues with more sensible solutions than xenophobia and demonization, but I imagine the National Front is so easy to mock, people would prefer to feel superior and deny the issues are important, and thus keeping the National Front alive and kicking for another year.<br /><br />Anyway, back to politics as usual, gossiping about candidate's imagined mental complexes than actual issues that have no easy answers.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com