Emotions Attachment: Enemies Others and Election Time

emotions attachment: This left-right consensus means that voters are not offered a choice at election time, according to Rabble. If both left and right agree on who gets what -- let the impartial world market decide -- then politics as social conflict between profit seekers and employees becomes irrelevant. On the economic issues of how wealth is produced and distributed, the social democratic left in the U.K., France and Germany -- once elected -- have bought into the globalization is good agenda promoted by the conservative right. What Marine Le Pen and her Front National represent is a world divided between friends the French people and enemies others . The Front National appeals to strong emotions attachment to country and its flag, anthem and patriotic symbols. While the results of last Sunday's first round of voting for the next president of the French Republic showed support for LePen at 21 per cent, the French Socialist candidate Beno t Hamon gathered only six per cent support. With France shaken by dramatic incidents of violence and assassination, Le Pen plays off the 21-century war on terrorism and its associated Islamophobia to stoke fear and distrust of recent immigrants and French Muslims. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.