We're hearing, increasingly, the same from American left. In one breath they say people cannot vote for the right, as the right would destroy our precious democracy.
In the very next breath, they warn of political violence from the left, warning us that we dare not contest their control of government or they will revolt.
It can't be both, guys. You cannot have it both ways. Either you support Our Precious Democracy, or you're violent revolutionaries who will kill people to retain power.
Macron is a fine example of a leftwing technocratic shitlib. He's supposed to be some kind of Third Way centrist, and a "reasonable" person.
But here is threatening violent, bloody revolution unless people reelect his party.
French President Emmanuel Macron cautions that voting for populist parties in the upcoming elections could lead to "civil war," prompting accusations of fearmongering as his own leadership faces severe criticism.
Key Details:
Alarmist Statements: Macron claimed that electing right-wing National Rally or leftist-socialist New Popular Front could divide the nation, sparking civil unrest.
Opposition Response: Jordan Bardella, National Rally's candidate, criticized Macron's divisive comments, pointing to ongoing unrest as a persistent issue under Macron's presidency.
Historical Context: Macron's tenure has been marked by numerous protests and riots, including the recent racially charged riots and contentious pension reform strikes.
Diving Deeper:
President Emmanuel Macron has issued a hyperbolic warning about the potential for "civil war" should populist parties gain power in the forthcoming legislative elections. Macron has labeled the "political extremes" represented by Marine Le Pen's right-wing National Rally and Jean-Luc Mélenchon's left-wing New Popular Front as dangerous.
The President argues that both the right-wing and leftist-populist agendas could exacerbate national divisions, citing the right's focus on identity and the left's push toward communitarianism. His claims are supported by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who accuses both parties of nurturing a cycle of hatred and division that threatens the social fabric of France.
Do you remember Zack Beauchamp? That's the guy who wrote "battle reports" from Iraq, supposedly true but one has one's doubts, for the New Republic. His stories were full of US soldiers shooting dogs for no reason and even one guy wearing a dead human skull for a hat.
In other words, he was a creative writing drop-out who knew what his leftwing audience at the New Republic already believed about US soldiers and was eager to serve them up a big plate of Confirmation Bias.
Now he's warning about Republican "authoritarianism" in terms so strident and stark it sure sounds like the only thing a good leftist can do to resist this authoritarianism is... outlaw the opposition party and impose "peace" through violence.
Mark Judge, one of the men smeared by lunatic leftwing fabulist Crissy Blowsey-Ford, reviews his paranoid conspiracy-addled call to arms.
Submit to leftism or you're an authoritarian
Beauchamp is a writer for the leftist website Vox. In The Reactionary Spirit, he spends a lot of time arguing that former President Donald Trump and the new political populism represent authoritarianism -- despite the fact that most political and cultural repression today is coming from the Left. Leftists such as Beauchamp keep preaching that Republicans are authoritarians, then in the next breath demand that you submit to the Left's policies, no matter how irrational, immoral, unconstitutional, or bizarre.
Here is the sleight of hand that Beauchamp uses. He takes old cases of people resisting moral and necessary social change and declares that such attitudes are still a driving force on the Right. Are you against a boy claiming to be transgender sharing a locker with your daughter? You're no different from the goons who beat up civil rights marchers. You're an authoritarian.
Someone once observed that "for liberals, it will forever be Selma, Alabama, in 1965." This is where Beauchamp lives. He never considers that in the last 50 years, liberalism itself has changed, going from being focused on equality, common sense, and due process to becoming hysterical, punitive, and irrational -- not to mention authoritarian.
Judge relays Beauchamp's message that the right is authoritarian, while ignoring Obama's crackdown on the press and drone strikes against American citizens.
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Beauchamp uses academic jargon to disguise the weakness of his premise. He can't call Trump an outright authoritarian because Trump gives press conferences, is for gay rights, tries to keep America out of wars, and tries to remove regulations on businesses. Trump can also be an infantile crybaby, but that's petulance, not authoritarianism. Instead, Beauchamp warns of "powerful political factions in established democracies" that "worked to alter the very fabric of the democratic system" and "were able to replace democracy with something altogether different: a system that appeared democratic at first glance but was fundamentally rigged in favor of the ruling party." This, Beauchamp declares, is "competitive authoritarianism."
Competitive authoritarianism "maintains formal democratic rules but breaks those rules in order to protect a special class."
Huh, you mean like a cadre of powerful bureaucrats conspiring with propaganda media to rig elections and subvert a democratically elected president?
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In 2024, everybody in America is an oppressed group. Regardless of whether an objection to their elevation and the eradication of tradition is based on religion, human reason, science, natural law, or logic, it must be steamrolled. Guys like Beauchamp will be driving the truck.
It's a good piece, worth your time.
Below, a "Democracy Defender" promises that their will be blood in the streets, and "people will die, people will die!" if Trump is elected.
Be careful, Chief. Someone might feel that you're threatening violence and take that threat seriously.
It's just accepted as normal that leftwingers will threaten to beat or kill -- or actually beat and kill -- their political enemies, and the rest of us are supposed to just accept this.
Prediction: The FBI will ignore this. In fact, if they investigate anyone, it will be the people replying to this guy for "threatening" him.
Oh, and do note, the poster of this tweet is not the person who posted the threat. The poster here is alerting us to this videotaped terrorist threat, not making it himself.
Speaking of Zee French, an anti-immigrant song has been gaining popularity in France, so, of course, it's been banned on TikTok and FaceBook.
The basic idea of the song is that "asylum seekers" are saying "Je partira pas," "I will not leave." The response is yes you will, and sooner than you think. The lyrics are here.
""Je partira pas",
Si, si tu partiras
Et plut�t que tu crois.
On t'a assez donné,
Maintenant tu peux te casser.
Bon débarras
Et ne reviens pas.
"Je partira pas",
Si, si, tu partiras.
Comme t'es venu
Tu t'en iras
"I will not leave,"
Yes, yes you will leave,
and sooner than you think.
We've given you plenty,
Now you can get lost.
Good riddance,
And don't come back.
"I will not leave,"
Yes, yes you will leave.
Just as you got in,
you'll be getting out.
There are more lyrics but you get the point.
There's a certain amount of ugliness here, but, as Instapundit has said about the Tea Party and Trump: The Tea Party was us asking politely. Trump is what you get for ignoring those polite requests. Now we're telling you rudely.
There was a term in the late eighties, I think: "Compassion fatigue." It's what cost the Democrats elections. People got sick of the progressives and liberals piling one obligation after another on the people. We were henpecked to death, and told we must always put members of protected liberal interest groups ahead of ourselves.
You can take some of that -- you need some of that, I concede -- but you cannot take this forever. The leftwing Marxists cannot claim that you have infinite obligations to foreigners, and those foreigners have no reciprocal obligations themselves.
People have compassion, until you absolutely take advantage of it, and then they say: "Je partira pas"? Si, si, tu partira, et plutot que tu crois.
That's rude. But you know what? We were polite for thirty f***ing years and you just ignored us.
People aren't just sick of third world immigration: they're sick of their corrupt, unaccountable governments telling them that the bureaucrats rule the world, and the citizens can go get f***ed forever.
You cannot rule against the wishes of the people forever.
Or can you?
The EU Parliament, WEF, and US intelligence services and interlocking directory of corporate/financial power in the US sure thinks you can.