Posted on 05/03/2017 7:06:48 AM PDT by rktman
Halfway between mountains and the Mediterranean, the southern French village of Puget-Theniers is old, idyllic and a picture of the quiet rebellion under way in rural areas.
In the first round of France's presidential election, residents here, an hour's drive from the city of Nice, voted overwhelmingly to cast the country's rulers to the wolves.
Thirty-seven percent of 1,300 ballots on April 23 were for far-right leader Marine Le Pen and another 18 percent for Communist-backed firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon.
A collection of other "anti-system" candidates from Trotskyists to a man who believes the European Union is a CIA-backed conspiracy won another 10 percent.
"We're fed up with our leaders favouring financial groups, insurance companies and bankers," said Leo Vellutini, a 56-year-old having an afternoon drink with locals in the pretty square at the centre of the village.
He says the Le Pen vote has "spiced up our drinks together". While not everyone agrees, no one at the table has anything good to say about France's political leaders.
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The ‘financial groups, insurance companies and bankers’ everywhere have taken our non-violence and civility as acquiescence all over the West. If we’re not burning $#it down, we must be happy, right?
Paradise lost. Muslim hordes gained.
I don’t blame them after all these years of the FAR LEFT sticking it to them.
Maybe they realize that France will be lost to the muslims if They continue to elect far-left extremists.
It’s not far right. It’s preserve the French culture from the invading hordes of left-hand-a$$wipes.
You have to remember...This is from YAHOO....Anything that is to the right of extreme communism/socialism is “far-right”....
It’s only an hour from Nice....haven’t there been 3rd world issues in Nice?
Paris gets a bad rap for being mean to tourists, and the advice is always to get out to the countryside, people are much friendlier. I say it’s a bad rap only because I liken it to somebody landing in New York with little knowledge of the language or customs. It would be tough, people can be rude.
Because they want to remain idyllic and French, and not be turned into New Mogadishu.
My husband and I have been to France and Italy a number of times and both of us find the French friendlier than the Italians.
May have voted less mainstream, but Le Pen is a socialist patriot, and the other guy is a communist. They are not on the “right.”
What Liberals are deliberately accusing of being "the far right."
No, they are turning to the sort of Racism that Hitler made popular with his Nazi party, which is a party of the *LEFT*, not the right.
And I said this would happen years ago. The Left Wing and their ridiculous notions of "Tolerance" are singlehandedly reviving the Nazi race hatred.
They are making things so bad in tolerating bad behavior from Immigrants, that they are creating a backlash that plays right into the hands of the racists.
Paradise lost?
Sounds more like Paradise regained.
Hope Le Penn can pull it off.
Her campaign and polling numbers look suspiciously like our election last Nov...
Please win Marie.
No, they are turning to the sort of Racism that Hitler made popular with his Nazi party, which is a party of the *LEFT*, not the right.
Yes. The left has worked hard to restrict the choices to National Socialism or International Socialism.
Limited Government and the Rule of Law is deliberately ignored.
The point is ... they are not going to remain ‘idyllic French villages’ for much longer if you they keep up their immigration policies.
As usual, the left misses the point completely. They love their little ‘idyllic French villages’ but have no idea how they got to be ‘idyllic French villages’.
LOL! IOW, one is less left than the other?
“Idyllic French villages” where, like everywhere else in France,
Gasoline costs four times the U.S. rate.
Cars are taxed based on horsepower & wheelbase length.
Guns & gun licenses are extremely difficult to obtain.
Half of one’s annual income goes to taxes.
Exterior looks of one’s house is regulated by the Ministry of Culture.
Public speech is closely monitored by the police for “hate” (does not apply to Muslims).
I’ll stick to this side of the pond, s’il vous plait.
The French and all Europeans need to return to the roots of their faith. Only God can work the miracle that they need after the ravages of socialism and the invasion of Islam.
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