Any politician brave enough to take this line in this climate instead of shutting up and avoiding it gets at least some level of respect from me.
French socialist Jean-luc Melenchon dead by apparent suicide with 3 bullet wounds in the back of the head
Based Melenchon.
Why isn't this guy dominating the polls? (I get that Hollande really poisoned the well for the left in France, but come on. At the very least, France's working class is rather class conscious.)
It's the sadboi version of Megatron. It transforms from a robot into a :gun-hubris:
Do the French public support sending military aid to Ukraine? I can't see him doing well if that's the case
Because he's a pretty contentious figure as far as I'm aware. He's routinely slammed for being antisemitic and, unlike Corbyn, Melenchon has actual faux pas on record like saying "Jesus was crucified by his own people", so it's not an accusation that is hard to stick. Plus he's sometimes lumped together with the deep state conspiracy people, perhaps unfairly but still. So there, I would put Le Pen's chances of winning the next election higher than Melenchon's and significantly so. Neither is winning, Macron is polling really high for some reason.
Damn, and here I thought I found a good figure to rally behind somewhere.
lol i grew up in a country ran by a socdem party i wish they were like Melenchon. not helpful imo to condense things down to everything being socdem when its clearly easy for anyone to see the difference between center-left social democratic parties and left-wing socialist parties. also idk a ton about Melenchon but La France Insoumise is a good party and much closer to GDR than the socdems.
yeah a lot of historically socdem parties like labour or the SPD turned neolib during the 90s and never really recovered from that. when there's new socdem parties taking up their vacant place in the party spectrum, like the Linke in Germany, people tend to pretend they're Stalin incarnate when they're really slightly left of Bernie, and when there's people like corbyn who may turn the neolibs socdem again the backlash is even worse.
Le France Insoumise is like Die Linke. Melenchon is more similar to Corbyn than Bernie, tho the general situation in the US and Europe is still different and that influences things. France has a pretty large left-wing movement, much bigger than in the US in terms of membership and electoral presence. LFI and GDR have about 6% of parliament, and center-left parties also have about another 5%. Idk what the equivalent of that would be in the US, maybe like 2% but mostly just center-left? Left wing parties have something like over 700k members, compared to like 100k in the US between DSA and other parties, tho of course in both actual active membership is much lower.
thanks for the info. seems like France has a much more robust left movement than the USA, even if it's still besieged by neoliberalism.
The US is a single party oligarchy so we don't have any percentage in government. If it was a multiparty democracy we would have literally six people out of five hundred at the national level.
Solidarity with French socialists. Break a few more riot shields with your bare hands, c'mon it'll be funny
Imagine a fireman lit on fire charging into a police line to one side and a professional boxer just wrecking shop on the other.
"Aw man, the seller said the shield works on rocks and bottles. They never said nothing about fisticuffs!"
His polling started to trend up again, if it goes like last time where he had big gains in the last month or 2 leading to the election due to the given media coverage is it possible he gets 17-19% and goes to the second round ?
do you see it as likely that the right coalesces around Zemmour over Le Pen and him performing better in the end ?
Can someone with more knowledge of French politics fill me in on this: apart from the anti nato stance, is Melenchon a new labour like 'socialist' like Hollande, or something more than that? It's just that the term 'socialist' in European politics has become nothing but a blanket term for everything left of Reagan.
