And why shoudn’t it? Once you make the decision, the fateful decision, that given everything you see around you, everything you experience in your vie quotidienne, everything you have learned about Islam, everything you now comprehend about the failures of the two main parties, over the past several decades, when the Muslim menace grew pari passu with the Muslim presence in France, why should you not cast your vote for the FN?
The Le Pen who could be properly denounced as a collaborationist and, in his way, a negationist (not a denier, outright, of the murders of Jews during World War II but a minimizer of what he called a “detail” of that war), is out, though he did as much as anyone, by his very awfulness, to delay the day when the French en masse would come to their senses about Islam and Muslims, and to ignore those eloquent voices such as that of Jacques Ellul, who could hardy be heard over Le Pen and the anti-Le Pen din. His daughter has done everything she can to distance herself from, and to deplore, her father’s uncacceptable views, and it’s not an election ploy. She means it.
Now you may find it hard, at first, to vote for the FN. But once you do it, and perhaps you won’t tell those who you know would be horrified, it turns out not to be so horrible.You can do this, and then, after you come from the voting place, you could do it, and you did. And after a bit, you realize it wasn’t so bad, why you could even do it again, and your friends, the ones whom you do tell, and who claim not to understand, think you’ve gone out of your mind, now begin to think, and think, and even they might see the wisdom of voting for the FN, though they wouldn’t admit it, at least not yet.
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One Response
It’s likely that for the short and medium- term future, Frenchmen will tell pollsters they wouldn’t consider voting for the FN and then walk in the booth and pull the lever for their local FN candidate. It will, in other words, take a long time for the moral taint of supporting the FN to fade- but it will.
The mere fact that Frenchmen have begun to vote in large numbers for the FN will help others to jump the psychological barrier.
I have a friend, a Russian Francophile, who still despises the FN. She thinks Marine Le Pen is just applying cosmetics to the dark and ugly views of her father, ,views that my friend still believes animates the thinking of Marine Le Pen.
What articles in French could you recommend that might change her mind?