Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West<\/a>. And he found a pretty good source in Paris — actually in France — a man by the name of Christophe Guilluy. He describes himself as a geographer and a housing consultant, but he\u2019s also obviously adept at demography and political science as well.<\/p>\nHe has been investigating the tumult in France in an attempt to explain it and write books about it. And at the heart of his investigation is globalization, what is the impact in France of globalization. He says that it has brought inequalities unseen for 100 years. That it is benefiting a few, but the few that it\u2019s benefiting the wealthy upper middle class elites who are perfectly fine with it. The upheaval and the discord and the inequalities are happening everywhere else throughout French society, demographic upheaval, cultural disruption, and now the French are having an election to in part decide what to do about it.<\/p>\n
The focus here by Mr. Guilluy, the geographer and housing consultant, says that French society has been split in two by m\u00e9tropolisation. “In 16 dynamic urban areas (Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, Lille, Bordeaux, Nice, Nantes, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Rennes, Rouen, Toulon, Douai-Lens, and Montpellier), the world\u2019s resources have proved a profitable complement to those found in France.<\/p>\n
“These urban areas are home to all the country\u2019s educational and financial institutions, as well as almost all its corporations and the many well-paying jobs that go with them. Here, too, are the individuals — the entrepreneurs and engineers and CEOs, the fashion designers and models, the film directors and chefs and other ‘symbolic analysts,\u2019 as Robert Reich once called them — who shape the country\u2019s tastes, form its opinions, and renew its prestige.”<\/p>\n
In other words, the picture of France that the world sees is shaped by the people who live in these 16 urban areas, the elites, and not all of them are ruling class in a governmental sense, but they\u2019re benefiting fine and dandy from globalization. And they control the media, they control the entertainment industry, just as in the United States. The same people control the method of influence over popular culture.<\/p>\n
“But globalization has had no such galvanizing effect on the rest of France.” Cities that used to be as lively, although smaller, as lively and robust and economically successful as Paris and these cities that way for hundreds of years are now deserts. They have been abandoned. They are haunted by empty storefronts and blighted downtowns. Think of it as the Rust Belt.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve got 16 cities in France that are doing fine and dandy. They are the cultural and media corporate headquarters that determine popular culture and opinion, journalism. The rest of the country is essentially forgotten and a Rust Belt. It used to be thriving, but it isn\u2019t any longer. And this man attributes the primary impacts of globalization for this current circumstance.<\/p>\n
But it gets more pronounced than that because these people who\u2019ve been displaced, who have been left out, have been replaced by people that are taken care of and provided for with much greater care and energy than native French. And these are immigrants, largely Muslim.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We are back and we are analyzing France and what the recent election there means and how it\u2019s similar to the United States. It\u2019s probably safe to say if the French had something like an Electoral College, Marine Le Pen would win, but they don\u2019t. They\u2019re not a constitutional republic; they\u2019re not a representative republic. They\u2019re a quasi-parliamentarian democracy, and it\u2019s a different circumstance than ours.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Christophe Guilluy, the demographer or geographer, says that he “doubts that anyplace exists in France\u2019s new economy for working people as we\u2019ve traditionally understood them.” These would be waiters, waitresses, people that work in department stores, any type of retail-level work. These jobs just don\u2019t exist. The city of Paris has become like London or New York and San Francisco. You have two groups of people that live there: millionaires and immigrants. And then you throw the tourists and students in there. There\u2019s no room, for example, in Paris for the median Frenchman, economically.<\/p>\n
The French working class cannot work in Paris because they can\u2019t afford to live there. So they have been forced to leave not just Paris but other urban areas. Immigration explains why. While economic opportunities for native median Frenchmen are lacking in Paris, they are also prospering for others. In other words, somebody\u2019s taking the jobs that native French working-class people aren\u2019t taking because they can\u2019t afford to live there. Remember the people taking the jobs live in public housing now.<\/p>\n
“Journalists and politicians assume that the stratification of France\u2019s flourishing metropoles results from a glitch in the workings of globalization.” In other words, globalization, it\u2019s kind of like communism. It\u2019s perfect; we just haven\u2019t had the right people do it yet. Globalization is actually flawless, there just a little glitch here because we just haven\u2019t quite perfected it. But that isn\u2019t the problem. The rich parts of France have failed to have what they\u2019re doing translate to everybody. It\u2019s still only working for a select few and not outside the cities at all. And fixing the problem involves coming up with a shortcut.<\/p>\n
Like the globalists say, “Well, we just need free Wi-Fi and that will make this working class more competitive, and it will raise their incomes.” Do you hear that here? We need to get free Wi-Fi, we need to get that service or that service to the poor or disadvantaged, and that will launch them to a new economic stratosphere. They are saying the same thing in France. But he doesn\u2019t expect that, if it ever happened, to make a difference. It\u2019s a campaign thing, people use it to get elected, but it wouldn\u2019t really make any difference in changing the economic disintegration that is taking place.<\/p>\n
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Again, in the mid-twentieth century, the French built five million public housing units, which now accounts for a sixth of all households. Public housing is one-sixth of all households in France. It\u2019s hideous looking, but it\u2019s more or less affordable. But its purpose has changed. It does not house native French workers for whom it was built. It now houses millions and millions of immigrants from north Africa who began to arrive in the 1960s.<\/p>\n
Between 2001 and 2011, the population of white Londoners, for example, fell by 600,000. And the current rate is happening in France as well. So where are those people going? Where are they going to work, and who are they voting for? And that\u2019s what the election really has turned out to be.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The comment that I made about the Electoral College, in France what happens in the cities, the 16 largest urban areas, led of course by Paris, run the country. The people that don\u2019t live in the cities don\u2019t have a voice. They do in elections, but without the Electoral College they have no strength, and they don\u2019t have an Electoral College. It\u2019s an amazing comparison in that regard. The big city, Paris, Leon, Marseille, which is the French crime capital, at least according to a TV show that I saw. It\u2019s called Marseille, with Gerard Depardieu. You like that show? You watch that show on Netflix? Gerard Depardieu, he\u2019s the mayor of Marseille. Yeah.<\/p>\n
At any rate, the point is, those cities now dictate to the rest of the country politically, culturally. It would be in this country as though if New York or San Francisco say what is, that\u2019s the way it\u2019s gonna be in Wichita. Because there is no mechanism like we have here in the Electoral College, which actually promotes a greater and wider array of democratic representation.<\/p>\n
At any rate, the two remaining, to me, quite interesting aspects are this. So we\u2019ve described here a circumstance in France which is almost parallel to the United States: globalism and the shrinkage of Paris as a nation state and primarily as a member of the global union. The people who benefit from that are those who live in the cities. They\u2019re doing very well. They\u2019re doing quite well. These are the people that hire gardeners and pool people and household staff and so forth. These are the people that basically have enough money to have employees themselves, nannies, you know, things like this.<\/p>\n
But the people being hired for those jobs are not French. They\u2019re immigrants, because in the cities it\u2019s too expensive for working class French people to live. They don\u2019t earn enough money to even afford to be able to live there, so they have to go out into smaller cities and rural areas in France. They have been replaced by immigrants, and it\u2019s not whether it\u2019s illegal or not, it\u2019s just immigrants. And the vast majority are Muslims, and the vast majority of those don\u2019t have any living expense problems because they now live in all the public housing, which is one-sixth of all housing in grants.<\/p>\n
Now, you might think that a situation like this would bother the French elites just like you might think that in America the plight of middle class working people in America would bother and concern the Democrat Party, but you would be wrong. They don\u2019t care. The Democrat Party decided to get rid of the white working class as a member of its coalition because they didn\u2019t want to have to appeal to them. These are the people that want to work. These are the people that want to be upwardly mobile. The Democrat Party\u2019s not interested in that. They\u2019re interested in a coalition of minorities that are willing to be dependents.<\/p>\n
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And that\u2019s the way the Democrat Party here has rolled the dice. And in France the elites have done much the same thing. French elites — this is what fascinated me. According to this researcher, Christophe Guilluy, French elites have convinced themselves that their social supremacy — I mean, they know they\u2019re in the big clique. They know that they\u2019re the top dogs. And they have convinced themselves that that upper class status, that that supremacy has nothing to do with their economic strength. But instead, it\u2019s because they think they are good people. They think they are decent people. They\u2019re not racists, and they\u2019re not bigots, and they\u2019re not sexists, and they\u2019re not homophobes. They are decent people.<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t think, according to this guy, that their might, that their power, that their social standing has anything to do with the amount of money they have. The reason for this, according to Monsieur Guilluy, is that “doing so allows them to ‘present the losers of globalization as embittered people who have problems with diversity.'”<\/p>\n
Does that sound familiar? Yeah, you people that are opposed to illegal immigration are a bunch of racists. You\u2019re xenophobes, you\u2019re misogynists, you\u2019re all of this stuff, you\u2019re bitter clingers, and who is it that gets to describe you this way? Why, the elites of New York and Washington and San Francisco and Los Angeles, they get to describe you this way. And they set themselves apart because their status in life has nothing to do with the money they have. They\u2019re better people than you.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s the same identical circumstance in France. The elites believing that what sets them apart from everybody else in the country is that they\u2019re better human beings allows them to present the losers, the economic losers as angry people who have problems with diversity. In other words, these elites in France say, it\u2019s not our privilege that the French deplorables resent. It\u2019s the color of some of our employees\u2019 skin. So what they claim, people like this Macron guy and others of his ilk, what they claim is that people voting for Le Pen resent the fact that the elites are hiring people of color and minorities instead of them, and that makes it possible for them to categorize them as racists and bigots and what have you.<\/p>\n
French elites have a very colorful vocabulary for those who resist the open society. “One need not say anything racist or hateful to be denounced as a member of ‘white, xenophobic France,\u2019 or even as a ‘fascist.'” You don\u2019t have to say anything. You don\u2019t have to do anything. You just have to not be in the elites, you just have to be middle income or poorer. If you express any discontent with the political system, you are cast as a white xenophobe in France.<\/p>\n
The circumstances are just so closely parallel here, and it\u2019s just an illustration that liberalism, socialism, wherever you find it, is identical. And it has its arguments, it has its strategic lexicon for how it separates and divides people, and it is hideous. And of course Le Pen is the equivalent of Trump, which means that she\u2019s a reprobate and absolutely horrible, and this is where that election is. She got within two points of the guy. It\u2019s assumed he\u2019s gonna win this in a slam dunk in the next round on May the 7th.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: This is Kathryn in Wichita. Great to have on you the program. How are you doing?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you to you and Mr. Snerdley for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I have a question for you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Do you think the Tea Party has inspired an anti-establishment movement that\u2019s spreading to other nations like Brexit and the French election?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, actually it may have provided — what\u2019s the word — confidence for others to behave accordingly. It may have given them strength, but I think, to be honest with you, I think what\u2019s driving movements like the Tea Party and Brexit is an absolute distaste for liberalism, a distaste for globalism. In the case of Brexit, a distaste for dissolving the identity of the U.K.<\/p>\n
In the United States the Tea Party was specific. It was an opposition to out-of-control spending by the government and illegal immigration and the total lack of concern for anything to do with America. It was made up of people who had never been in politics before. There wasn\u2019t a leader. There wasn\u2019t a manifesto. It was just naturally organic. And that\u2019s what scared people.<\/p>\n
The fact that there was no organization, that there was no platform, that there was no single leader that you could take out and destroy the movement. To the degree that it inspired others, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question about it, but I don\u2019t think it created, I don\u2019t think it caused anything \u2019cause I think these anti-globalist sentiments, anti-liberal sentiments have been brewing and building for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The big difference is that Marine Le Pen is not Donald Trump. And the guy that came in number one in the runoff, Macron or whatever his name is, do you know that his wife is 25 years older than he is? He was a student at age 15 and some teacher of his, they got married. She\u2019s 25 years older. She\u2019s 64, he\u2019s 39, or something like that. He\u2019d be the youngest president, prime minister, premier, whatever they call \u2019em, dictator of France. I\u2019m just joking about dictator. If he wins, he\u2019s gonna be the youngest ever.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ImmigrationEUIslamic-EU.jpg\")
So what happened here is that Emmanuel Macron left the Socialist Party. He is a socialist. He is the equivalent of an American Democrat. He started his own party, which he\u2019s the only member, just to ditch the baggage that would accrue to him of being in the Socialist Party. So he is characterized as a moderate centrist, which he\u2019s not. He\u2019s an ultra, left-wing, rabid socialist.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/650-042417-marcon-.jpg\")
The only thing that Macron is saying that is typically what Democrats or socialists do that is a conservative type of thing is Macron is saying that he wants to lower taxes. But everything else is completely from the Democrat playbook. And even the slogan for Macron\u2019s political party, En Marche, means “forward” in French, just like Forward for Hillary Clinton. It\u2019s the same slogan.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/671019682-300x200.jpg\")
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Then, the equivalent to Trump, or conservative over there is Marine Le Pen. And she is always referred to as the extremist right-winger. So you have the moderate centrist independent, Macron, versus the extremist right-winger, Le Pen. He gets 23% of the vote; she got 21%. Some people thought she would get more than that because of the ISIS attack and the terrorism there. The stock markets around the world are going nuts. They\u2019re very relieved because this Macron guy loves the European Union, does not want to get out of it, no Brexit in France, nothing near it is what the experts are saying. They already have this guy elected. In their world it\u2019s just a formality on May 7th, the next round of elections, this guy\u2019s gonna walk away with it, Le Pen\u2019s gonna be defeated again and France is going to be saved as an archliberal state-run by a moderate centrist independent.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BookCadwell.jpg\")
<\/a>Now we go to Paris. And I was aided in my attempt to understand this,