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> very unpopular globalist selling out the French people

Yes he was a banker before running for office. The left is pushing this narrative a lot. Forgetting that their leader is a millionaire who never worked in the private sector…

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> millionaire who never worked in the private sector

That is the most French thing I've heard all week.

The net worth of every politician is public. Jean-Luc Mélenchon the leader of the left is an actual millionnaire. He always has been a professional politician.

This guy wants to run a country and make it prosper…

Sounds like Biden, career politician! (Although admittedly Biden enabled the vast US credit card usury industry out of Delaware with the private banking sector)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/biden-bankruptc...

In France, most president were career politicians as well, AFAIK only three of them actually worked in the private sector at some point (Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing and Macron, all of which were banker prior, in he same investment bank).

So not a lot of diversity, but even if that's regrettable, it's pretty ridiculous to blame Mélenchon for that.

I looked that up before posting, out of curiosity.

Seems Biden only became a millionaire after his stint as VP, from book sales and speaking engagements. Being in Congress doesn't pay much.

The leader of the left, or just a leftist leader?

I don't care for simplistic reductionism, it reminds me of Le Pen's rhetoric.

I categorize 'the left' as either anarchist/progressives with no practical experience in running anything, the petit bourgeois woke leftist trend fashionistas but with lamentably few actual working class (in some case historically as there are few jobs) moderate left representation. The same issues are also a crisis in the UK (I'm a UK citizen) - ultra wealthy globalist leadership, straw man opposition, angry, frustrated electorate who feel no one is representing them.

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