Dixie Hughes

by contributor Dixie Hughes

France is a fractured country. As in the US and the UK, the rift is not between the traditional left and right. Instead, it reflects divisions; cultural, social, and economic; that came with globalisation and mass immigration.
The result of this mess is that France as one country no longer exists. One half the population (in blue-collar areas, small towns and rural areas) is shut out by the other half (the ‘white-collar’ elitists) who live in the big cities.
The “Elephant-in-the-Room,” the “French Islamist problem” remains undebated and unchanged.
After two years of continuous terrorist attacks, after five years of continuous Muslim immigration, after dozens of Muslim riots, big and small, in the suburbs of big cities, millions of French people were expecting a change; or at least a public conversation.
But, intentionally or not, these questions were avoided by the media.
The expected victory of Emmanuel Macron; a perfect elite product of the French techno-sphere; dashes any hopes of addressing the frightening questions of Muslim immigration; Muslim no-go-zones (more than a hundred); the spread of Salafism among Muslim youths, and of the general secession of the French Muslim community.
Macron, young and modern, [supported by both Obama & Tony B Liar, FFS!] cautiously avoids talking about these problems. Macron, for many analysts, is the candidate of the status quo; Islamists are not a problem and reforming the job market will supposedly solve all France’s problems.
Macron is, for example, against taking away French nationality from convicted jihadists.
The words “Terrorism,” “Islam” and “Security” are almost absent from his vocabulary and platform, and he is in favour of lowering France’s state of alert.
By blaming “colonialism” for French troubles in the Arab world, and calling it “a crime against humanity,” he has effectively legitimised Islamic extremist violence against the French Republic.
In an interview with TF1, the former Rothschild banker said “If there was a simple answer to the migrant crisis, it would have been found. I want to put the Le Touquet treaty back on the table and to renegotiate the agreement.”
That is the oft repeated threat to move the Anglo-French border controls to the Dover end of the Chunnel…
French sociologist and writer Mathieu Bock-Côté has warned that Macron embodies, “all that France wants to extricate itself from.”
“Excessive globalism and cultural leftism are in contradiction with the aspirations that seem to come from the depths of the country,” he wrote in ‘Le Figaro.’
Macron has previously declared that Europe has “entered a world of great migrations” inescapable for the continent, which will only accelerate.
If Emmanuel Macron wins, France as we have known it can be considered pretty much finished.