Political maturity or "Let's be serious!"

 For the second round of the French presidential elections there are still candidates: Marine Le Pen (Front National), extreme right and Emmanuel Macron (Center and "all the rest" from classical left to classical right.) The minor leftist and rightist candidates were eliminated so we could expect them to vote in favor of macron since they defend the values of democracy. Not at all!

A big fringe of the new Chavez inspired leftist party "Les Insoumis " mostly students and intellectuals rejects the idea. According to them it would be voting between the plague and the cholera. It seems and by large that a majority of these people will vote for Macron, winning with 64% of the votes. Given the French electoral system never an extreme right candidate will reach the absolute majority: 50%+1.

(An asshole who vote will always have more weight than
two intellectuals who abstain)

   This is the big difference between the French electoral system which respects the majority and the  US one. Even if Hillary Clinton won in votes she lost because of the United States antidemocratic electoral system.  However this problematic situation could have been avoided. At least one million abstention votes were missing to Clinton to win in key states. And which were these votes? Mostly the frustrated students and intellectuals who wanted "Sanders for presiden" and later said: “Clinton- Trump: same corruption!” And here we are: Trump is elected president for at least four  years while in France people, even the ones opposed to Macron will in general mobilize themselves to vote. This has a name: political maturity or political consciousness.

Actually the same million of abstainers was marching later in Washington for women’s rights: too late. And what about the rights of the 3/5 millions "undocumented "Mexican workers who are going to be deported? Nothing. Another aspect of the American hypocrisy and well-thinkingness  

(Why did not we vote?