‘Open Democracy?’ “Pseuds’ Corner,” More Like!
That ‘Open Democracy’ gang went paranoid a month ago, all uptight about the appealing prospect of a Le Pen presidency in 2020.
That’s an outcome devoutly to be wished for, as Le Muppet Macron continues lip service only to controlling the migrant menace.
But the odd O.D. crew are STILL banging on about Marine…
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….with a weird analysis of her campaign style from some geezerette who begins her warble with this, a quote from another warbling geezer.
“Political scientist Benjamin Moffitt argues that populism is, above all, a performative repertoire which has capitalized on the intensive mediatization of social and political life.”
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Seriously?
That’s just high-falutin’ hogwash!
Can’t the klutz express himself in plain English?
However, he obviously realises that nobody could possibly divine a meaning from that initial stanza, so he has another go!
.” It is a stylized performance which conveys a thin – but highly effective – ideology of antipathy to elites and claims to represent “the people.”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rethinking-populism/marine-le-pens-goosebump-politics/
Ding-bat!
Yes, Marine’s performance has style.
It’s downright classy.
But there’s nothing ‘thin’ about Marine’s SUBSTANTIAL disdain for elites.
And if it’s a question of whose ‘claims to represent the people’ are more valid, then we need only cast our minds back to the announcement of Macron’s most famous fake-reform…
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….those ‘consultations’ in which the French people would be given the chance to direct the destiny of their beloved France…
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Jim Ex Jakarta 20:35 on December 31, 2019 Permalink |
You are a bit offbeat tonight, Ross, but New Years so we all are.
Does that super-pseud not get it, ‘performative..mediatization…’ does he know he’s writing for an English speaking audience?
Those words are not in the dictionary, are they?
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