For the record, I've been dead against both from the outset, heh.  I would have liked to have seen Sanders at the helm in the US and still think the Democrats made a colossal error in judgement there.  I'm not sure about Macron in France.  He is a former bankster, so doesn't exactly endear trust, but he's still infinitely preferable to Le Pen.  Mélenchon would be my first preference, though.



Pffft.  People are still so set on this ridiculous notion that "culture" is this static, rigid thing that never changes over time or even by locality.  It's such utter horseshit and is largely a thinly-veiled way of saying "I don't like outsiders with their own customs and traditions".  Culture in France today is different to how it was 20 years ago.  Culture in the north of France differs to that in the south of France.  Culture is an organic thing and will change and adapt naturally over the course of time.  Change will occur regardless of who is leading the country.  

Also, some, myself included, would argue that a Le Pen government would be a destruction of values, because we fought WWII to defeat authoritarian fascism and consign it to the history books as a dark period in human history never to be repeated, not embrace it with open arms and jizz-filled pants like some of the nutters in this thread some decades later.