Because I object to right-wing baiting from the presidential party, I am a patronizing, insulting, fist-in-the-mouth, left-wing elitist?
It's your opinion and this is a free country.
Over time, there has been less and less arguments and more vituperation in your writings.
If you choose to go this way, this is your prerogative; just don't expect me to follow you there.
In my book, each adult takes personal responsibility for one's own words and actions. I assume mine.
You decided to behave the way you do; no one else forced you. You can call this ideology (like I care), I call this values. Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
You said that Sarkozy's electoral promises and immigration policies are coded speech targeting racists. I said - and I repeat - that the audience that you call racists are actually citizens who have perfectly legitimate and real reasons to worry, that you deny. And you deny it, because they don't fit the leftwing ideology claiming that "those who appear as weak or as victims must always be right".
The left, just like you do for the third time now, declares those people racists (ie, calls them names), despises them, excludes them. Hence they, with their 15-20%, pushed Le Pen in front of PS's Jospin 6 years ago and ensured Sarkozy wins in 2007.
The speech you call rightwing baiting for racists are actually pragmatic policies addressing legitimate issues of an important part of voting citizens.
You'll likely dismiss this, and I am saying this yet again: the French left, with its custom of picking favourite categories and pushing forwad unreasonable rhetorics and political correctness, is bound to lose general elections for a long time still. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
