Macron: Another neoliberal false dawn

When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France last year the establishment absolutely swooned like schoolgirls.

CNN: Macron, the 39-year-old strongman Europe needs

Forbes: French Lessons: How Emmanuel Macron Is Turning The Tide On Populism

NYTimes: Macron and the Revival of Europe

DW: Is France's Emmanuel Macron the savior of Europe?

So another centrist, former banker preaching labor reforms and austerity was what France needed?
A year later the people of France say 'no'.

Only 23 percent of those surveyed reported a favorable opinion of Macron in September, down from 27 percent last month, the YouGov poll for Le Huff Post and CNEWS found.
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The former investment banker has sold his pro-business reform drive on promises that it will boost growth and jobs, but many voters ranging from conservative pensioners to low-income workers complain his policies mostly benefit companies and the rich.

His government has repeatedly shrugged off poor poll ratings, insisting it will not waver on the reform agenda as politically sensitive overhauls of unemployment insurance and pensions loom in the months ahead.

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Trump is more popular than Macron.
And now the far-right is on the move again.

As a result, Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front National party, recently rebranded as National Rally, is now close to overtaking Mr Macron’s En Marche outfit in the polls.

The good news for the far-right comes just months ahead of European Parliament elections next year that will decide the course the EU takes for the next half decade.

Just 20 per cent of voters would vote for Mr Macron’s En Marche party in the elections, with 17 per cent for the far-right. Close behind are the centre-right Republicans, on 15 per cent, and on 14 per cent France Insoumise, the left-wing populist vehicle of firebrand socialist Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

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Pluto's Republic's picture

...revolution manifesto that has been produced this century. The most translated. The most read.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-invisible-committe-now

So, there's that.

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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
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@Pluto's Republic

The real lie is not the one we tell others but the one we tell ourselves. The first lie is relatively exceptional in comparison with the second. The big lie is refusing to see certain things that one does see and refusing to see them just as one sees them. The real lie is all the screens, all the images, all the explanations that are allowed to stand between oneself and the world. It’s how we regularly dismiss our own perceptions. So much so that where it’s not a question of truth, it won’t be a question of anything. There will be nothing. Nothing but this planetary insane asylum. Truth is not something one would strive towards, but a frank relation to what is there. It is a “problem” only for those who already see life as a problem. It’s not something one professes but a way of being in the world. It is not held, therefore, nor accumulated. It manifests itself in a situation and from moment to moment. Whoever senses the falseness of a being, the noxious character of a representation, or the forces that move beneath a play of images releases any grip these might have had. Truth is a complete presence to oneself and to the world, a vital contact with the real, an acute perception of the givens of existence. In a world where everyone play-acts, where everyone puts on a performance, where one communicates all the more as nothing really is said, the very word “truth” produces a chill or is greeted with annoyance or sniggers. Everything sociable that this epoch contains has become so dependent on the crutches of untruth that it can’t do without them. “Proclaiming the truth” is not at all recommended. Speaking truth to people who can’t take even tiny doses of it will only expose you to their vengeance. In what follows we don’t claim in any instance to convey “the truth” but rather the perception we have of the world, what we care about, what keeps us awake and alive. The common opinion must be rejected: truths are multiple, but untruth is one, because it is universally arrayed against the slightest truth that surfaces.
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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

Bollox Ref's picture

Why am I not surprised.

Macron 1er. More third way bilge.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.