Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "France's Insane Election Results Explained" video.

It's only "insane" if you have a very limited ability to connect actions with results. Many of us have been saying for years that reckless immigration policies would cause a backlash - and we were called every name in the book for it.
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You're making the classic mistake of thinking politicians actually mean anything they say. . . . . . . .
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@keatonwastaken This is why your side is losing. You think throwing vague, abstract pieces of "gotcha" rhetoric at people, is all the rebuttal you need to complaints about how your ideologies are making things worse. And when people point out that reality hasn't gone away: you sneer at them, mock them, and claim you are above providing specifics. Meanwhile - groups like RN speak to people's actual problems, and the result is. . . . . .Sunday's election.
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@keatonwastaken Thank you for admitting you are not able to provide clarity on your earlier mumblings. Once again proving that the emptiest vessel makes the most noise.
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@Talisguy Open borders were implemented to create a more divided society and to supress wages. It was a policy that only ever benefited the already wealthy at the expense of the bulk of the population.
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@keatonwastaken "So you're telling me that the actions of some people from a certain group justifies certain behavior?" That question is so vague as to be almost meaningless.
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"If the fascists win" Since there are no fascists standing in the run-off, you don't need to worry about that.
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I would say it's better than the UK's system where you can get millions of votes and no seats, while a party with fewer votes can get dozens of them.
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@keatonwastaken Which "groups"? Which "actions"? Which "behaviour"? In what context? When I read history at university - we were taught to be specific, not to use vague, loosely worded abstractions. Try it sometime.
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@Talisguy Thanks for admitting you can't refute the point.
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@lif3andthings763 Again - one who understand nothing of economics. When labour is scarce, employers pay what they have to. When it is super-abundant, they also pay what they have to. This isn't complicated.
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@Talisguy There hasn't been "peace" since I was a teenager in the 90s. It's been one war after another.
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The old tend to be comfortable - they have their house, their pension, their golf clubs, and their Saga cruises once a year. The young are increasingly poor, desperate, miserable, and feeling betrayed by an establishment that cares about the old and about immigrants, far more than it does about them.
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@keatonwastaken 🙄 It's like trying to have an intelligent conversation with a vending machine.
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@keatonwastaken The thing that makes me chuckle is how you're trying to bluster your way through this - but we both know you're never going to use that line again because I gave you such a fright just by asking "what does that mean?" When I used to do competitive debating you could always recognize that look of panic in someone's eyes when they just had no idea how to answer. Next time, don't just parrot things you saw on reddit eh kid?
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@Talisguy "The idea that the border is open is laughable " Only to someone who hasn't seen the numbers recently - which you obviously haven't. "open borders were the norm for much of the 19th century" Almost every large scale migration before then was accompanied by war. I'm astonished at the parochialism and lack of perspective in that statement. "Free movement of people forces employers to be more competitive" You obviously don't understand basic economics, (I find this is the norm among open borders advocates), a surplus of labour always and everywhere results in the suppression of wages. Please familiarize yourself with the concept of "supply and demand" before going further.
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@goganii French politics has always been more. . . . . . ."exuberant" than the Anglo countries.
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If "integration has failed", the first thing you should do is cut off the flow of immigration. When in a hole, stop digging!
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And in most countries, you have paper ballots and voter ID. For some reason, American liberals are terrified of those things. . . . . . .
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@keatonwastaken Incidentally kid - this is why your side is losing. You think throwing vague, abstract pieces of "gotcha" rhetoric at people, is all the rebuttal you need to complaints about how your ideologies are making things worse. And when people point out that reality hasn't gone away: you sneer at them, mock them, and claim you are above dirtying your hands with specifics. Meanwhile - groups like RN speak to people's actual problems, and the result is. . . . . .Sunday's election.
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@keatonwastaken "Hell no bro really said "competitive debater"" Formal debate societies have been a thing in high schools and universities for centuries. Thanks for confirming (as if weren't already blindingly obvious) that you have no education above primary school level.
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@keatonwastaken "I am not surprised that you see it as a point of pride" I am surprised you see having NO education as a point of pride.
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@keatonwastaken You have a lovely day kid. Because your life after flunking out of school is going to be really. . . . . ."meh".
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I'm middle aged rather than old, and already I struggle to explain to young people that there was a time when Islamic terrorism was not a routine part of life.
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And also the "mainstream" parties de-legitimizing themselves.
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@lif3andthings763 If economists had a track record of being right about literally anything - perhaps I'd care that some of them like open borders.
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@ashleclercq8288 I'm sure some French people do genuinely want infinity Africans coming to their country - but they seem to be the minority since even the so called "mainstream" parties are drifting towards less permissive immigration laws.
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@44ThaNatos44 "RN ran on an almost empty platform, except for immigration" If they just solved that one thing - it would make almost everything better. Mass 3rd world immigration is rapidly destroying Europe.
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Power is a drug - politicians are addicts. They don't want to give it up. Ever. However bad things are.
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@aturchomicz821 You should be far more worried about socialists like the National Socialist German Workers Party than by moderate conservatives like Le Pen yes.
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It would makes sense - the current one isn't working for people anymore.
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