On April 23rd, the latest battle against globalism takes center stage as France goes the polls to decide its future, choosing between Marine Le Pen, Emmanuel Macron, François Fillon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
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| Dear Frenchwomen, this election is a referendum on the future of femininity in France, and it hinges on one fundamental issue. | |
| Despite everything you have been told, women who want children need money, babies are expensive, breastfeeding is necessary, and the joys of motherhood carry a heavy financial burden. | |
| Of course, women who don't want children don't face these restrictions, but we know the real truth, don't we? | |
| I myself was not particularly interested in fatherhood until I met the right woman, and then that was all I thought about, all I wanted. | |
| You may be in your 20s at the moment and thinking that motherhood is for other women, older women, perhaps women with less ambition. | |
| But nature has a funny way of playing with her feelings to get what she wants. | |
| In five years or ten, you may wake up one morning and burst into tears when you see a picture of your friend's newborn baby. | |
| You might suddenly yearn to embark on the most foundational and enriching journey of life. | |
| Parenting. | |
| The creation of life. | |
| The nurturing of new minds. | |
| And when you first hold your newborn baby, you are going to need resources, money, food, shelter, health care, sleep, for heaven's sakes. | |
| How will you get those resources? | |
| Long ago, so long that it is fast fading from our memories, the answer was for a woman to get married to a good man, a stable provider who would get up before dawn every day and march off to work, returning with a paycheck to be handed over. | |
| This may sometimes have felt stifling to new mothers, and I'm sure it was at times. | |
| But it was also stifling to new fathers from time to time as well, because married fathers have to earn about ten times what they could live on as bachelors. | |
| New life requires sacrifice. | |
| You are alive. | |
| You exist. | |
| Because others sacrificed to raise you. | |
| It is a story as old as our species, as old as life itself. | |
| It is the price of existence. | |
| More recently, very recently in fact, compared to the age of French civilization itself, society has generated a new answer to the question of how some mothers get resources. | |
| The welfare state. | |
| The welfare state has its pluses and minuses. | |
| It has certainly helped women get out of abusive relationships and ensured that fewer children go hungry in poor households. | |
| But it also has proven a lucrative lure for economic and political migrants from all around the world. | |
| The government has only so much money The more people who live in France, the fewer people who work in France, the less money there is for new mothers, particularly native-born French mothers. | |
| Listen to Christian, a former TV freelancer, who said it was her experience as a woman that drew her to vote differently. | |
| She said, I was pregnant, single, and in financial difficulty, so I went to inquire about benefits. | |
| But I was entitled to nothing. | |
| Yet next to me was a Pakistani woman with an interpreter who was entitled to everything. | |
| Something was not right. | |
| We can't give everything away without protecting our own. | |
| When I tried to get housing help, I was told, move back in with your mother. | |
| I raised my son on my own in a studio flat in a block in northern Paris. | |
| There was a rape below me. | |
| Burnt out cars. | |
| You see the challenge, right? | |
| If you have a child, but not a husband, you need financial support from the government. | |
| And the government is running out of money. | |
| There is no escape from this reality. | |
| Someone has to pay for children. | |
| In other countries, perhaps even countries where these migrants are coming from, the solution to this problem is simple. | |
| Women get married, have no access to abortion or birth control, and few, if any, human rights. | |
| Other cultures, other belief systems do not believe that it is the government's responsibility to pay for children. | |
| They believe it is the man's responsibility to pay for his own children. | |
| This idea in the minds of some immigrants does not vanish the moment they set foot on French soil any more than your devotion to women's rights would vanish the moment you set foot on the hot sands of Saudi Arabia. | |
| Before the welfare state, people integrated into the culture of the host country because there was no other way to survive and flourish economically. | |
| You had to get a job, so you had to learn the language, French. | |
| You had to keep that job, so you had to conform to the cultural norms of your new country. | |
| This is how integration used to work. | |
| You integrated, at least to some degree, or you couldn't make it economically and had to go back home. | |
| In the 19th century in America, before the welfare state, a third of immigrants didn't really like it and so went back. | |
| Without a doubt, there are people immigrating into France who wish to replace French laws and French culture with other laws and other cultures. | |
| They wish to replace the welfare state with a true patriarchy. | |
| Frenchwomen, you haven't really experienced patriarchy. | |
| You know that, right? | |
| First of all, Western European men are very deferential to women and have worked to create societies that serve women's needs and preferences in just about every conceivable way. | |
| Some might say that women have not reacted to this generosity and thoughtfulness always with maximum possible gratitude and appreciation, but that is a topic for another time. | |
| You can see, outside your windows, in your streets, a real patriarchy growing around you, becoming more visible in the streets and alleys of your cities and towns. | |
| This arises from the basic fact that women need men for resources, just as men need women for love. | |
| You can either get your resources from a loving husband, an unloving husband, or from a cold government bureaucrat. | |
| But you're going to need resources no matter what. | |
| If more and more people pour into France and attach themselves to the welfare state, You will be paying for the growth of a patriarchy quite hostile to all the rights that have been given to you by Western culture. | |
| You will have fewer children, if any, while other groups will have more children, more and more and more. | |
| In a democracy, there is only one way this ends up. | |
| A restoration of the patriarchy you were formerly freed from. | |
| You understand this, right? | |
| There is no other alternative. | |
| There is a woman who stands between you and the resurgence of a brutal patriarchy. | |
| She's not perfect. | |
| So what? | |
| Who is? | |
| If you want to play the game of visiting the sins of the father upon his children, you can do that. | |
| But that is unfair. | |
| A woman should be judged on her own merits, not on the accidents of her birth. | |
| Does Marine Le Pen hold her positions on immigration because she hates women? | |
| Because she is a racist? | |
| No. | |
| A belief system, a legal system, an ideology, a religion, none of these are racist. | |
| If you oppose communism, you cannot be called a racist, except by people who have no idea what either word means. | |
| If foreign ideologies gain ascendancy in France, it is you, the French women, who will by far suffer the most. | |
| Trust me, there are men who might just be a little bit okay with the return of a brutal patriarchy, but how many women will happily submit? | |
| Will you? | |
| If I can characterize regret as a devil, I would say that this devil causes you to avoid, to appease, to try and buy five minutes of peace at the price of perpetual enslavement. | |
| There is no danger. | |
| There will be no change. | |
| Nothing is happening. | |
| No need to panic. | |
| Everything will be fine. | |
| Those who are alarmed are just fearmongers and fools. | |
| Everything will continue as it always has, no matter what. | |
| This devil is a sadist, and he will pull the wool from your eyes, but only after it is too late. | |
| Like the smoker who smashes his cigarettes after a fatal diagnosis, if you do not act wisely now, You will regret your failure bitterly in time. | |
| Not in 50 years. | |
| Not even in 20 years. | |
| Maybe not even in 10. | |
| If you vote out of fear or conformity or virtue signaling or mad hope, if you vote foolishly, you will live to see so many of your treasures lost. | |
| I don't want you to experience that kind of regret, that bitter self-recrimination, that self-hatred. | |
| Do not wait. | |
| Until it is too late to turn back. | |
| After tomorrow, if you fail, it will be too late to turn back. | |
| Women fought so hard for the freedoms that you enjoy. | |
| There are women in France who came to escape their subjugation. |