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On 22 Sep 2021, DoD <danskisanjar@gmail.com> posted some news:Z5L2J.42366$2B4.23700@fx04.iad:

I have zero sympathy for the French. They bent over and invited, nay welcomed, the black animals now destroying their country like termites.

An obsession with comparing Britain unfavourably to France has long been
one of the most counter-productive pathologies of our bien pensant establishment. Such people believe in a naive, one-dimensional
caricature of the country – a place that only exists in their
imaginations, or on their summer holidays.

They consider France to be the apex of European civilisation, cultured
and “progressive”, while the UK is all too often condemned as racist,
ignorant and consumeristic. They lament the inability of British
politicians to mimic their continental counterparts in using the state’s
power to advance the country’s interests. High-speed rail, nuclear
energy and a supposedly better quality of life are held up as conclusive
proof of the glories of the French system.

The appalling violence and disorder that has erupted in several French
cities in recent days should be the end of the delusion. What started as
anger over the killing by police of a young Muslim man has turned into something approaching anarchy, with rioting, looting, arson and the
destruction of buildings spreading across the country. Hundreds have
been arrested. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has called for
parents to keep their children at home and has cancelled a scheduled
visit to Germany. Opposition leaders have warned that the country now
stands on the “edge of the precipice”.

The great danger for France is that this is not a one-off explosion of
fury at an isolated incident, but a consequence of the abject failure of
the French model. For decades, while tourists have wondered at the architectural and culinary marvels of the country’s cities, many
high-rise suburbs have been abandoned to poverty, criminality and gang
warfare. France’s integration and immigration systems are broken. Crime
and violence are horrendously high, even in normal times. Islamist
terrorist attacks have been shockingly common. The education system,
once world class, has deteriorated dramatically and fails vast numbers
of young people. Discrimination, racism and anti-Semitism are far more
rife than they are in Britain. The country’s anti-capitalist, dirigiste
model, its high taxes and its social “protections”, have locked huge
numbers out of meaningful employment and delivered even less growth than
in the UK.

France has sought to coast on past successes, pretending to itself that
this situation was somehow sustainable. Mr Macron has, to be fair, taken
steps towards freeing up the economy. But his arrogance and
high-handedness have also alienated swathes of the country. His pension reforms, while sensible, provoked mass unrest, and the gilets jaunes
protests resulted from imposing oppressive measures on motorists.

Some have suggested that the days of the Fifth Republic – created for
General de Gaulle in the 1950s as a form of “republican monarchy” – may
be numbered. It gives great power to the French president, but leaves
the political system dangerously unresponsive to public sentiment. The
evidence suggests that this sentiment is shifting to the extremes. It is possible, perhaps even likely, that the next presidential vote will see
a run-off between Marine Le Pen and a far-Left candidate. Establishment
parties have been hollowed out.

Where does France go from here? Its multiple crises are so intractable
and so extreme that it would be ridiculous to be optimistic. Order might
be restored in the next few days, but there appears to be little
political will to do anything about the festering resentments, the lack
of opportunity, the low economic growth, or the severe problems in its immigration-integration system that lie behind much of the current
unrest. Indeed, in the long term, the situation is only likely to get
worse. The country’s admirers in Britain might like to pretend
otherwise, but the French model is broken.

Alexandre
1 day ago

This situation ensues from the traditional tolerance of France to
illegal immigration and low-level street crime, creating a culture of
impunity in general and among minorities in particular. That has nothing
to do with impressive achievements in infrastructure (such as high-speed
rail and nuclear energy) and healthcare enabled by the power of French
state. Now the state needs to unleash the same awesome power on the
relevant "communities".

https://news.yahoo.com/french-model-now-tragically-broken-210000802.html

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