“It Means A Financial Crisis” Any Questions?
I really, really hope that I'm not right about France. But the setup is hard to ignore.
The argument that Marine Le Pen can't possibly win the Presidency seems to revolve - at least superficially - on the notion that her name is a "known quantity" in French politics. The implication there is that the pollsters likely have a much better handle on this than they did on the Brexit referendum and the US election.
I'm not an expert on French politics. But what I would say is that the more fractiou
while the western political est. has really stepped in ‘it’ over the past few years re:ukraine, syria, refugees…they are now losing to nationlist ideas: brexit, trump, geert, le pen…..but to think that the coalition govts geert and le pen will need to form would then exit the eu and euro is jumping ahead. first is a crackdown on the policies towards refugees, syria/russia (the core issue no one seemed to realize is that syrian muslim refugees are not the white catholic immigrants to the US of yesteryear). IF that goes well they MAY try to do these very complex and long term economic relationships—but they can get elected simply saying they will do it on Day 1.
“the core issue no one seemed to realize is that syrian muslim refugees are not the white catholic immigrants to the US of yesteryear”. Exactly. I mean just think about how friendly all those “white” “Christian” immigrants were that came to America and slaughtered Native Americans, stole their land, and eventually relegated them to reservations. See, white Christian immigrants are always really, really friendly.
yeh but that was then and this is now! we learned the lesson of what can happen and we are going to make sure it doesn’t happen to us!
One (let’s just call it) event and all bet’s are off.