Disaster in France-What Must Be Done Now

[Shane Mage]

>...the vote was so splintered that they allowed a conservative
>and a fascist to go to the run-off. The far Right is taking power across
>Europe and the US over the splintered factions to their left.
>
>-- Nathan Newman

The Left did not lose because its vote was splintered.  Jospin
explicitly recognized that and took "total responsibility" for
the electoral disaster (if Nathan's boy Gore had only been
half as honest...).  But now failure to unite *against Chirac*
(and my proposal of second-round unity behind José Bové
seems to have prospects just as dim as Le Pen's in the
second round) is leading straight towards an even worse
disaster in the legislative elections in June.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64