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[–] Skyrock 1 points (+1|-0)

There's a lot of excitement on Voat for LePen, but I'm 99.87% certain that she will fail like her father did in 2002 when all the voters from the moderate right to the far left banded together to prevent him.

[–] Boukert [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Voat tends to jump on any populist/EU critics bandwagon. Remember when Geert Wilders grew 25% in last Dutch election.... But voat insisted he lost....... It's all a fairly short minded thoughpattern without any place for nuance.

She has no chance, both Fillion and the socialist candidate have given their voters, voting advice for Macron. This alone would give him 60% win in next election. You can compare it to Trump - Clinton, where Clinton is Le Pen. A lot of people don't necessary want Macron, but they sure as hell don't want Le Pen, so they vote accordingly.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

I don't know enough about either candidate or French politics/government to really weigh in much. But from my perspective there's all these powerful forces uniting against Le Pen. Bankers, media, globalists, etc. That's usually an indication that they're in danger of losing power if she gets elected.

So I don't know her, she might be corrupt as hell or batshit crazy. But I do know the forces uniting against her are corrupt as hell and seek to impose their control and in turn the population's servitude.

I'll be happy for France if they take that control back. France has a long history of supporting liberty, culture, art, philosophy, and just general goodness around the world. Here outside powers are trying to destroy their identity as a nation and that's a shame.

So I don't know if the French people "win" if she gets elected, but to me it looks like they lose if she doesn't.

[–] Boukert [OP] 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

I think you are viewing this way to much from your "Murican bubble" with the US theatre in mind.

The "forces" are not uniting against her do to her being a threat to the establishment, but more due to her standpoints and outings (don't forget her father, the one who raised the party was a holocaust denier). She has a lot of standpoints which I could not name in the same sentence as the 3 French core values :Liberte, fraternite and egalite (Liberty, brotherhood and equality) She is extreme right, not conservative. (Even Trump didn't make any remarks close to the worse from Le Pen)

Macron is a new independent btw, his standpoints are reflected a whole lot more by the #3 and #4 of the first election round (19 and 21 %) then Le Pen's, so its only normal they back him in the final round.

"French general goodness" is not really a thing, ask Algeria or look at occupied Netherlands under Napoleon (we actually became a monarchy after that to protect us better)