Posted by
Tzimisce on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:16:24 PM
Congratulations to France’s newest President Sarkozy. Although the media is calling you a “Conservative” being as you’re from France and the news agency call McCain a Conservative, I can’t help but wonder how far to the right you really sit. If you’re of the typical European right winger stripe, you’re a Trostskist and you’re real crime is that you’re not in line with the hard core Stalinists that make up your population.
Of course his opposition immediately began rioting after his victory was announced. Apparently they think Iraq is too violent a place (and France is not.) One can’t help but wonder if these rioters are the same “angry youths” who took their violence to the streets a little over a year ago. It’s bizarre that those riots weren’t deemed worth reporting and these new riots are – not that I’m accusing the media of being agenda driven propagandists. But it sure is funny the stories that are suddenly thrown up as problems the minute a right winger gets in to office anywhere.
That said, I don’t envy the new President. Sarkozy sure has his work cut out for him: a bloated, socialist state that can no longer support itself. The people living on the fat of the hog are numerous and hold lots of political power. They’re not going to want any of their precious benefits cut off even if it means that the people in the lower classes are going to have to suffer to do it. And the only people who don’t see that are the Communist elites composing the think tanks of that floundering nation. They need to reread the section of the Manifesto where Marx talks about the wealthy doing whatever they can to maintain their power.
And if taxes and oppressive socialism isn’t bad enough, you have to factor in a horrible immigration problem. Again, I don’t know if these new riots are being sponsored by the same “angry youths” who rioted a year ago, but both problems need to be addressed. Of course, pointing out that these “angry youths” all come from the same geographic area, speak roughly the same languages and practice the same peaceful religion that requires them to pray in the direction of Mecca five times a day is “racist”. And suggesting that they lay off the antisocial violence in the streets is unfair “discrimination”. (Does this sound at all familiar to my American readers?) So if Sarkozy can’t even talk about the problem one can only wonder how he’s supposed to do anything to try to fix it.
Liberals are liberals no matter where they are – be it France, Germany or Washington DC. And the goal of all liberals is to insert themselves in positions of power where they can tell people what to do free of criticism and completely untouchable by voters. So how much will Sarkozy actually be able to get done? Will he actually be able to do the things that need to be done to pull France out of the doldrums? I’m not going to hold my breath….