What's sad is that even after all this, it could happen all over again any minute. Add to this how much far-right parties will continue to benefit from this throughout Europe. I don't see the EU managing to live through this, the situation is not improving. In some countries like Greece there are even bigger conflicts coming because there are very left and very right-wing groups, similar to how things have been in Turkey. But in places like France, if FN wins FN will steamroll their opposition; in countries like France the right-wingers are minorities that can be loud enough to hold power through the complacency and idiocy of the "undecided" and the easily fooled. Even if Sarkozy was to come back and win, it will just make Le Pen even bigger.
Even in Germany things are turning around. Mix the economic, politic, immigration and Islam issues and you have very bad times ahead of Europe. Won't be long before the right-wing parties establish links throughout Europe, and then here and there the EU will fall apart. The issue of Islamic extremists is just one ingredient among a few others that will be used to continue to mobilize the fools, enough for the right-wingers to take power.
If the Fn is rising, it's not because of terrorism but because french politics are a joke and are thinking only about themselves for more than twenty years now. They lie non stop and can't keep a straight line of thought. French people aren't racist, xenophobic or anti Islam. They just have enough of shitty politics. Marine lepen and Philippot are smart and aware of this fact, they rightfully get more and more popular, even amongst people who belong to the first waves of immigration from North Africa, because they don't treat people like fools. They are coherent in their speeches and very clear. They also don't hesitate to talk about sensible topics no other politicians have the guts to tackle, too afraid to turn away their traditional voters.
Sarkozy, Hollande, Valls, Bayrou etc... They are all the same and they say and do the same things. People aren't dumb, they know Sarkozy didn't do anything, they know he is responsible for the rise of radicalism Islam in France, they know Hollande is the same and will follow whatever Americans and Bruxelles will told him to do.
Melenchon could have been credible, but his stances on some topics make him inaudible and a joke.
It's sad because from my point of view and daily life, it would be easy to talk to the people and make things right. But no, only the fn are doing this and we all know they aren't build to rule. They have recruited some good elements and very competent people, but there's still lot of old fashioned dude who are as trust worthy as other sharks from the ps and ump I mentioned above. They don't agree totally with the new direction but they stay anyway because the party became very popular and is still rising.
French people are disgusted by French politics. What is sad is not that the fn is rising but the fact that there's no one beside Marine Lepen who know how to talk to those people.
A Man like Melenchon should learn from Marine and throw away all the communist history and make a new French party focused on the people and the future. He got some good ideas and isn't a puppet but his strong link with the communist party and dumb leftists is a total turn off for young people like myself. We don't care about the past alliances and ideas, we want fresh thoughts dedicated to the complete new issues we are facing now and tomorrow. That's what Marine Lepen is doing and one of the biggest reason she is popular.
