Democracy is a Joke

Marine Le Pen's conviction and the specter of war with Iran reveal it to be false

Many of us woke up this morning to the news that Marine Le Pen was sentenced by a French court to two years under house arrest, and was barred from running for elected office for five years—effectively barring her from the 2027 presidential election.

Meanwhile, over the weekend President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran, telling NBC’s Kristen Welker “If they don't make a deal there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.”

Throughout the West, no matter what the people vote for, we get more of the same.

For decades, Le Pen has been engaged in a “long march through the institutions.” With infinite patience, she slowly and meticulously built her once-fringe party into one of the leading political forces in France. From 10.4% of the vote when she first ran for president in 2007, she increased her share of the vote to 17.9% in 2012, then to 21.3% in 2017. That year, she made it into the second round of elections, winning 33.9% of the vote. Finally, in the 2022 presidential election, she won 23.2% of the vote in the first round, and 41.5% in the second round.

After decades of neoliberal corruption and the ravages of mass immigration in France, the year 2027 was setting up to be the year Marine Le Pen finally achieved her big electoral breakthrough. Over the years, she’s made many sacrifices, and some ugly political compromises, to ascend to this point. She’s come under severe and often justified criticism from nationalists around the world for “selling out” on important issues. Nevertheless, in the postwar era, no nationalist leader in a major European country or in America has even come close to achieving what Marine Le Pen, under National Rally, was set to achieve in the 2027 presidential election.

We may pass over the details of Le Pen’s conviction for “embezzlement” with the simple fact that the current president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has an estimated net worth of between $40-50 million, mostly obtained through his career as an investment banker, where he literally worked for the Rothschilds. Political corruption is so ubiquitous in all major parties in the West, that it’s increasingly rare to see anyone get anywhere near the summit of electoral politics without being a millionaire or billionaire, or without billionaire patrons. Obscene, out-of-control plutocracy has become the norm during this Second Gilded Age of the 21st century.

Regardless of the guilt or innocence of Mme. Le Pen, the real reason she was convicted is obvious to every organism on this planet with a brainstem: to prevent her from running for president in 2027. Even with all her compromises—Marine’s own past statements and positions, the Le Pen family name and the legacy of her father are still enough that political elites in Europe will not allow her to take the presidency.

The task of representing National Rally in the 2027 French presidential elections will now presumably fall to Le Pen’s bland and colorless lieutenant Jordan Bardella, who may or may not be acceptable to elites due to his aggressive Zionism and signaling against “antisemitism.” In any case, he lacks the charisma and force of personality to be any kind of transformational force in French politics. At best, National Rally under his leadership will complete the process of “selling out” and become another establishment party working within the system.

In many ways, the trajectory of Le Pen’s career now resembles—to a less extreme degree—the course followed by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. After decades of slowly building support under the most extreme repression, this popular movement finally had its big parliamentary breakthrough in 2011, during the so-called Arab Spring. The following year, in what is considered the only free and fair presidential election in Egyptian history, the Egyptian people elected as president the engineer Mohammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party. Yet within two years, Morsi was overthrown in a military coup backed by Israel and the United States. He was sentenced to death in 2016, and died in custody in 2019.

Just like in the West, they love democracy in the Middle East—until the people vote for the wrong man.

This isn’t the first time a “democratic” European country has resorted to overturning election results or imprisoning nationalist leaders to keep them out of power, either. Just weeks ago, a Romanian high court unanimously ruled “far right” Romanian candidate Calin Georgescu, who won the first round of last year’s presidential vote, is ineligible to run again in May after the results of the last election were annulled.

The worst example in modern history is that of the Greek ultranationalist party Golden Dawn, which by 2013 became the third most popular party in “the birthplace of democracy,” and was subsequently branded a criminal organization by the establishment parties. All of its elected MPs were thrown in prison. After serving almost a decade behind bars, Golden Dawn’s leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos was released last year due to his advancing age—but his release was quickly overturned by a panel of judges and he was cast back into prison.

Here in the United States, democracy is being annulled in a different way. From the beginning of his political career, Donald Trump powered his path to the presidency by positioning himself against the neocons in the Republican Party who led America into the disastrous Iraq war. Above all, Trump’s politics were seen as a repudiation of the aggressive warmongering of the former Senator John McCain who, in a sick and twisted parody of the 1961 Beach Boys hit song, “Barbara Ann,” lost the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama after joking that he wanted to “bomb bomb bomb Iran.”

Yet over the weekend, bombing Iran is what Trump explicitly promised to do. Seemingly acting on orders from Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump’s biggest donor Miriam Adelson, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and other Zionist Jews in his circle of advisors and donors, Trump seems intent on spending his entire political capital on pushing a program of mass ethnic cleansing against the people of Gaza and provoking Iran into a direct military conflict with the United States. Just this week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered B-2 stealth bombers to the U.S. bases in the Indian Ocean, echoing the opening moves of both Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

All the pieces are being put into place for a major U.S. military campaign against Iran, waged on behalf of Israel. Meanwhile, back at home, arch-Zionist Attorney General Pam Bondi has implemented a multi-agency Task Force to Combat Antisemitism which is redefining terrorism to include “pre-crime” thoughts and opinions far more sweeping than anything attempted under the Bushes, Biden or Obama. By invoking Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to shut down anti-Zionist protests on college campuses, the new Trump administration—instead of canceling the “Woke” assault on free speech—is doubling down on it. Today, Trump enthusiastically endorsed the openly genocidal Jewish extremist Randy Fine for Florida’s 6th Congressional District, who wants to add hate crime enhancements to acts of “antisemitic littering” that would imprison Americans for five years or more simply for distributing leaflets critical of Israel.

No matter what White people vote for, we get more of the same. Leaders and parties who can’t be bought or corrupted, are simply criminalized by the Judeo-capitalist system. Elections are overturned, phony charges are trumped up, kangaroo courts pronounce sham sentences while wholesale corruption and even treason are the norm for the establishment politicians and parties. Meanwhile, fake populists and scam artists brazenly bait-and-switch their incredulous voters by running on one thing and then doing the opposite once in power.

Democracy is a joke. If Whites in America, Europe and Australia are going to secure our rights, then we’re going to have to find other ways of organizing power and exercising leverage besides competing in wholly rigged and discredited electoral systems. Liberal democracy in the West is totally illegitimate; at best it’s a transparent cover on a system of brutally unresponsive and uncaring Jewish plutocracy.