Mélenchon...

My scrappy French may not be best suited to translate verbatim all that man writes or says. Enough translations exist for anyone to access his ideas, they are not just his, I would dare to say, "ours". Mélenchon has done the headwork, Walks the walk and talks the talk.  Speaks for the hearts and minds of the common people, the majority, inclusively.  France needs him, the world needs more like him.  A "real" Republican.  As opposed to what?  A neo-monarchist perhaps.  I don't hear much of that expression being bandied about.
To my view American "Republicanism" is just a P.C. cover. Mercenaries for the Royalist cause.  They are heard to speak of "the American Empire". Some geriatric construct no doubt conjured to appease the guilt and justify the historic folly of their past actions. Make sense America, the Common kind.
Raise your ethical standard higher.
Not since my first encounter as a teenager , reading the work of Thomas Paine, have I been impressed by mere words. "Rights of Man", and "Age of Reason" Mr. Mélenchon does it for me.  America might do itself some good by reintroducing "Common Sense", another of Paine's writings as compulsory reading. Do the American people regard themselves as mere serving chattels  of the combined existing Crowns.  They, the Crowned families, appear to act as a cohesive force worldwide. A singular entity.
The Proxy war in the Middle East illustrates well the dominant influence that motivates and supports the illegal agressive invasion and destruction. Support that and you turn your back on all equitable human progress. To hell with America if that is the best they can do.
The Grid Iron flag of the Royal East India Company, "went west" mutating over the years of popular forgetfulness into the present banner, the "subtlety" of the design of the meaning that the Stars and Stripes represents is something worth pondering on I reckon. To my view it does not represent any beacon of hope for the planet.  There is no "New World", just the same good old one.  The West is not a culture, nor a nation it is merely a geographical direction.
Common to both French and English, "gone West" was/is used to describe someone who has "lost the plot". I retain the old worlder , "Last Worlder" right to go in the direction of my personal choice without the coercive obstruction and interference of Imperial bullying..
Witness if you will the rallies of Mélenchon. Compare the dignity of their  occassion with the exessive hystrionics that pervaded the American election. The "New World" must put it's own house in order. It abandoned the "old countries" the "old world".  They have a lot they refuse to learn, ignorance being their drug of popular choice. Like it or not America is still working for it's absentee rulers. Mercenary shills, are really servants soldiers and slaves of the old corrupt colonial order. "Well past their sell by date", sez I. America has lost all moral credibility.
Mélenchon has a programme that will work. Read about it, hear the man speak. Understand his principles, his philosophy. Accused by those opposing of being a Communist, far from true. He is a fair square Communaute, dedicated to serving the collective common need without sacrifice of the ecological infrastructure, the patrimonie, without the sacrifice of the poor and the collateral base, fair and square  he speaks for most all of us. He's the only one who appears to have a clue as to how equitable progress may be acheive. A way that leaves none but intransigent reactionaries behind. The crumbling decadent and unreconstructed pre war liberalism,  the Chamberlanian compromise.
 The "what's in it for me first", liberalism that now dare not speak it's name. The Old school liberals supported the Fascists in Spain, let us not forget. Chamberlain made nicey nice with Hitler,let us not forget.  That small detail revealed the very large shitstain in the Liberal pants that made Britain reject the faceless middle ground self serving compromise. The Blairite period exploited the fading memory of the working people of Britain, New Labour was just a make over for  old Liberals to get their grip on the serving ladle.  Left right and centre are all out dated constructs that without exception bend their collective knee and bow their heads to an unaccountable Crown. The dominant personality of the faceless elite, the paymasters and their sycophantic pocket filling supporters.
Mélenchon advocates an upgrading , The Sixth Republic,is understood to be revolutionary,what is so bad about that? It only becomes troublesome if the will of the electorate is undermined, obstructed or opposed by the privileged minority. That minority has betrayed the people ,failed completely in it's espoused cause of good civil, economic management, investing it's ill gotten excessive profiteering in the arms industry. Leaves many Trillions of dollars of debt in it's wake. The "Royal Progress". Not least of concern the millions of dead and displaced people.
Let's go for the Sixth Republic, the world can do without the world wearying washed out "wisdom" of careering lifetime politicians. Virtually all have dipped their bread in the soup of corruption. The  remaining uncompromising few  that practice in service to the higher ethical standard are mocked and villified, smeared and denegrated by the effective dominant executive.
Mélenchon is representative of the greater body of France. He deserves the support. France in turn may yet have a chance to become a good example to the world by the collective efforts of her people, the benign influence of democratic republican progress is the progress we aim to share,@Zero % commission. America panics we don't want their wheat, we don't trust their Food and Drug adninistration. We don't need GMO produce. We are neither afraid of nor an enemy of the new Russia.  Russia is not the old Soviet Union. We wont be fooled by regurgitated propaganda.  Assad is not the enemy. We now see the Merry Con media lie for what it is.
America, you're fired.  I am done for now.   I. WAZIR