Nicolas Sarkozy: Social progress and human progress must always go hand in hand
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Since the end of the Cold War, globalisation seemed to compel everyone to believe there was only one path, one model, one approach. As the crisis has demonstrated that this path was a dead end, we now all find ourselves forced to find others. In the end, there are two kinds of globalisation: the kind that fosters external growth, with everyone seeking, by all possible means, to take the jobs and markets of others, and the kind which fosters internal growth, i.e. a development model in which each individual, by producing more and consuming more, contributes to the development of all.
The first kind of globalisation takes the competitiveness-at-all-costs approach to the extreme by engaging in all forms of dumping and aggressive trade policies, crushing purchasing power and living standards. The second is based on increasing productivity, raising living standards and improving wellbeing. The first is antagonistic; the second is co-operative. The first pits economic progress against social progress; the second, on the contrary, links them.
Today, the whole challenge is for globalisation to make the transition from the first kind of approach to the second. The model of domestic growth in which social progress and human progress go hand in hand with economic progress is the one which has always enabled France to score her finest successes.
Basing competitiveness not on sacrificial policies that erode living standards, but rather on the search for global productivity through the quality of our education system, health care, research, public services, social protections and infrastructures, through our quality of life and the mobilisation of all our material and human resources, and the way private initiatives and public action have successfully complemented each other – this, basically, is what France has always sought to do. It is what best corresponds to her genius; it is what best corresponds to her ideal.
From an address by the French President to the meeting of Parliament in Congress in Versailles
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In the process - indeed, KEY to the process - the living spaces of European Man must be occupied by the Third World, and European Man himself must be demographoically replaced and deracinated. Thusthe process is genocidal. European Man is undergoing a real if soft genocide.
This is what Sarkozy is arguing for - his own elitist interests and our genocide. In that, he is joined by the political class in toto, by the banking and corporate classes, by the culture industry and by leftist academia - internationalists all. Add to that the Third Worlders who, since 23rd June 1948, have been feeding on the ethnic spoils system, and all those from among our own people who don't care, don't understand, don't think at all ... and you can see why resistance is marginalised.
These, though, are the rules for resisters:
1. As members of Europe's true people, love your tribe. It is normal and healthy. You are not a raceless individual, and all the negativity about European ethnocentrism that you have picked up in your life-time from education and culture is hateful and racist (look hard at the etynic origin of those who manufacture that negativity).
2. Don't give your vote to the political class. Be more courageous in the voting booth.
3. Don't accept the "moral good" of allowing non-white populations in Europe. If we want to live and not die we have to be very clear that Europe is ours and none others, and must always be so. It is not racist to want to survive. It is racist to deny us that ultimate human interest, and to demonise it as "racism", "facsism" etc.
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As for southover, it is strange how for every crisis facing humanity, the xenophobes like himself offer the same solution- the same plaster for every sore... the same stuck gramophone. As if the demographics of world population are not the natural result of cause and effect, but just happened by chance. I will just, for the benefit of people like himself, add a few words to his rather limited vocabulary - slavery, colonialization, imperialism, and last but not least, globalization. Western civilization would not be what it is today if it were not for these things. The demographics of world population would be totally different if these things did not facilitate the flow of natural resources and wealth in one direction only. Finally, it is time that the xenophobes realize that by trying to marginalize others, they are only marginalizing themselves.