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>i'm not so sure. i mean, the suspicion towards high >culture/metropolitan life/ shapes the us in everything from >the difference in funding for the arts to transportation >patterns. >
transportation patterns? Tell me more. It sounds interesting.
>yeah, but. i mean, the influence of le pen is far smaller >than the influence of the religious right in the us. us >policy is far more right wing than in france, definately on >the national level. and on the local level -- do y'all >still have fights over darwinism being taught in schools? >murders of abortion providers? >
No and no. But coming back to my original claim, that's just France. I wouldn't be so sure if we were talking Poland or Ireland.
>the action francaise as far as i know (which isn't far) was >a small party. and also, was it anti-paris, i.e. >anti-metropolis? did it explicitly de-fund the cities at >the expense of rural areas? >
Yes, it was/is definitely anti-Paris, anti-intellectuals, anti-cosmopolitism. And it was a small party, just like the FN is a small party nowadays, as opposed to what the recent brainwashing convinced people of, but the ideas that it defends are far-more widespread than the party itself. As I read recently in a good hip hop magazine (one of the only press sources which addressed the issue correctly), the problem in France is not that there are 20% of fascists, but that there is 20% of fascism in every French.
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