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You can go back and see that I said repeatedly, from the beginning, that there was no way Le Pen was going to win this election. Frankly, I didn’t even bother covering it very much, as the only interesting part were the Zemmour memes.
But frankly, I had no idea that the gap was going to be this big. I thought it would look more like an American election, with a slim margin of victory for Macron.
RT:
Incumbent President Emmanuel Macron scored 58.55% in the second round of the French presidential election, according to the Interior Ministry’s announcement following the completion of the vote count. Macron’s rival, far-right National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen, received 41.45%.
The Constitutional Council will add up the final results in the middle of the week.
Le Pen had already conceded, but promised to continue fulfilling her obligations to the people, saying her political movement will fight hard in the parliamentary elections.
Voting ended at 8:00pm local time. The turnout was 73.07%, which is considered low for a second round of a presidential election. The only time it was lower was 1969 (68.9%).
The left keeps talking about how democracy has failed because their candidates don’t get elected. I would like to assert that democracy has failed because my candidates do not get elected.
Therefore, both right and left agree that democracy has failed, so we need to accept this reality, and move on with our lives.
This never made any sense, this universal suffrage idea.
HL Mencken said it 100 years ago.
How can you possibly believe that peasant rabble has the collective intelligence to guide the ship of state? It’s not a serious proposition. It has never been a serious proposition, which is why Mencken and other pop intellectuals were tearing it apart basically immediately after it was implemented.
The Founding Fathers spoke at length of the problems of democracy before it was ever even implemented at scale.
This is why it is so frustrating to hear Tucker Carlson ramble on about how “real democracy has never been tried.” This is democracy. No, the elected officials don’t do what they say they will do – but people really do go out and vote for them. Clearly, the 2020 election was hoaxed, but this was primarily a result of extreme Jewish neurosis – it’s not like Trump was ever going to actually do anything. He couldn’t do anything – because of democracy.
I believe strongly that Trump came in in 2016 thinking he was going to do something. Then it became clear that the Congress would refuse to go along with anything he wanted to do.
Remember in 2017, Trump was trying to repeal Obamacare, and John McCain came in, his face still bloody from having a brain tumor removed, and voted against it.
McCain was elected, via democracy. Over and over again, people went in and voted for John McCain.
Trump’s election was a quirk, a glitch in the system, but the system was able to easily deal with that. The only thing Trump ever could have actually done with his position as president is call people out into the streets to end democracy, and make him into some kind of supreme leader.
As long as democracy exists, you’re going to get democracy results. Democracy was a joke before the mass media, but at this point, it is simply absurd. The overwhelming majority of people literally have their thoughts programmed into their brains by mass media, and democracy has no way of fixing that because it has no desire to fix that. It’s a feature, not a bug. Democracy is rule by the media. The media appeals to base emotions.
For the record: I think the initial American Republic idea was fine. This had voting, but only stakeholders – determined by land-ownership – were able to vote. People with skin in the game are going to vote for their own interests, as opposed to voting in accord with the emotional appeals of the media.
At this point, I would also not be opposed to any kind of new system that established some kind of tyrannical autocracy based on vulgar populism. An autocracy can actually be held accountable, while a democracy can never be held accountable, because no one can ever figure out who is responsible for anything and everyone in government just covers for each other by blaming each other. In this circus show where both sides blame each other and people even blame members of their own side, they are protecting each other with constant deflection. It’s a never ending game of hot potato.
No matter what you care about – unless you are a Jew, a pedophile, or a billionaire – democracy has failed.