The Left Can’t Come to Grips With French Election Results
Only the left is surprised by the outcome of the French Presidential election. The Associated Press reported yesterday that support for French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy came from unexpected segments of the population - namely women and workers. The left finds the news perplexing since Sarkozy’s opponent, Segolene Royal, is both a woman and a socialist.
Evidently, the left is at a loss to understand what motivates people, that is, people with jobs, in western society. Over the past several decades, France has lured hordes of immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries to her shores with the promise of all a Socialist welfare state can offer in exchange for the hope that the immigrants would help to pay for the pensions of the native French.
Now they have discovered that the Muslims are more interested in the welfare benefits part of the equation than the work part. And to make matters worse, the Muslims have taken to rioting in an effort to extort even more welfare benefits from an already overtaxed system.
Enter Sarkozy with a promise to solve both problems - stem the tide of immigrants, get tough on the Muslim rioters and fix the economy. The women vote comes from fear of the Muslim criminals and the worker vote from a weariness of footing the bills for a parasitic Muslim population.