Who is your favourite candidate in the French Presidential Election and why?

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is who I want to win because he represents everything that I believe. Its a shame having two left candidates in one election pretty much ruins both of their chances of making the second round though. The mainstream socialists are doing abysmally but not quite abysmally enough to give the radical all their votes.

French left voters are probably getting ready to pick Macron as a lesser evil but at least that is better than Mussolini lite.

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Cierzo · M

You know who she is, but after the Trump fiasco I don't really have hopes in any change coming from voting.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

You are disillusioned with the airstrike. I was aldo hoping Trump would have a more pacifistic foreign policy. He always was a loose canon though. He is getting praise from both Conservative and liberal hawks but there is almost no commentary of the risk he runs by antagonising Russia (if indeed that is what is happening).

The whole situation is confusing with conspiracy theories on all sides.

Cierzo · M

@Burnley123: He had to disappoint sooner or later, but I did not expect it to happen so soon.
Bannon's removal already made me frown and think something was going on.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Cierzo: My impression of Bannon was that he was an interventionist. He is all about 'existential war' between the West and radical Islam. I think he is a hawk and an ideologue. I think McMaster represents the more pragmatic end of American Conservatism but its hard to know who was behind the airstrike. I notice a lot of liberal hawks suddenly praising trump and I hope common sense somehow prevails.

Cierzo · M

@Burnley123: I really doubt there are liberals that are not interventionist hawks, more and more I see the difference between a liberal and a neocon is small, and in foreign policy almost zero.

I don't think Bannon is an interventionist. I see him more as a paleoconservative like Pat Buchanan.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Cierzo: LOL I agree with you about Liberal Hawks. My own Labour Party has a right wing that essentially no difference from neo-cons. They are members of the Henry Jackson Society; which basically means we bomb people 'because progressive values'. Pffffff.

I have seen a few Bannon speeches on Youtube and he has talked of war with China and the clash between Islam and the West. He is a nationalist and different from Bush neo-cons but I don't see his rhetoric as non-interventionist.

Cierzo · M

@Burnley123: He talks about a cultural/civilisational clash, but I have not heard him calling for war. He supports ethno-states, homogeneous states for different cultures, the opposite of multiculturalism.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Cierzo: For me the talk of the cultural clash is linked to the Bush War on terror. Maybe he doesn't want that and I haven't seen his opinions on specific American interventions. I do share your distaste for liberal hypocrisy though and the barbarism of standard US foreign policy which Trump seems to be now following.