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Entry: Learning to Love the French Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/learning_to_love_the_french#12477 Post contents: Once again I thank Charles Coulombe for a superb "window" on France and Quebec. It occasions all sorts of thoughts and ruminations. I think most of us would agree that the ravages of "political correctness" have advanced much further in most of Europe than in the United States, and France, certainly, has not been exempt from such madness. From the infamous "Law Gayssot" to the unhealthy mass immigration of millions of Islamic underclass into the "metropole," many signs indicate the extent of the rot. Yet, also, in France, as well as in other European nations, there is a healthy reaction, at least politically. Although the Front Nationale did not fare that well in the recent national election, its message was, in some part, coopted by the victorious Sarkozy. (I don't think Sarkozy will be much of an improvement over previous French leaders, but the fact that he had to pay attention to issues like immigration, crime, and national indepedence, is in itself significant.) Perhaps more interesting is the greater success of the Swiss Peoples Party, led by Christoph Blocher, which is now the largest grouping in the Confederatio Helvetica. Once again, the SVP is more or less anti-EU, opposed to mass in-migration, and in favor of maintaining Swiss identity and independence in the face of the Bruxelles bureaucrats. In Austria the Freedom Party (FPO) and significant groupings in Denmark and Norway, not to mention Poland, have been active in this same process. Of course, with the process of managerial, statist control so far advanced, it remains a good question if ANYTHING these movements do will succeed in breaking the hold the EU bureaucrats maintain. Still, there is always hope that historic and Christian Europe will somehow awake from this nightmare, and remember its heritage, its true heritage and who helped form it ---Clovis, Charlemagne,St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Charles V, St. Pius V, Lepanto, King John Sobieski, the Knights of St. John/Malta, and so many others.... Sent at: 2008 11 23