starkmonster wrote:Scobienz, as usual your debating skills are weak, and too often rely on distraction fallacy.
I say: There is a trend away from the center and the establishment towards fringe parties and figures.
You say: You preferred the policies of Le Pen to Fillon.
Like that somehow invalidates my previous statement.
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There is no distraction. You made a statement lumping Le Pen in with all the other establishment politicians you despise and I remembered your enthusiastic endorsement of her just a few months ago wherr you posted two or three videos of her outlining her positions on your pet themes.
It's not inappropriate to question what's changed in your assessment of her. I was surprised to see her in your list - she is the epitome of the anti-EU, anti-globalization, pro nation statist that you admire.
As for your comments about the drift away from the centre, I'm not sure if you noticed that the archetypal centrist has won a landslide in France, that UKIP has been decimated in the U.K., that the centrists won in Holland easily and that the Uk has reverted to the left v right debate that has marked it for the last century. Corbyn's good performance had nothing to do with populism and everything to do with an Obama like ability to bring out first time voters - in this case the young - while the Tories won more votes than any party since Thatcher.