Personally, I have a hard time understanding how to have a viable economic system without the rich people. And for me, if people started voting for LFI and RN, it's because they think that the other parties won't do anything.

Yeah I'm you there, it shouldn't make that big a difference. Except the Macron party has been playing a lot with that, making Le Pen the bearer of chaos today so left people vote for him, then making LFI the extreme to fear..

The voting base of LFI is quite broad I think. I have some friends being a part of the movement, and some would like to sell it as radical but not extreme, some might want to see it as extreme, others think it's not extreme at all

Anyway, whether you add extreme or not before the party, it's the same ideas, you like it or you don't.

In the end their ideas aren't extreme. It's about communism, nationalisation and getting rid of all the rich people. It's about putting back some sense of equality and justice, and putting a focus on worker's rights and ecology.

My grandfather was also left-wing, and if he were still alive, he would have said the same thing as you. Of all the people I know, even those who vote for this party, they say they vote far left.

Hehe, yeah true Poutou isn't our biggest star. I'll give you that point on LR also joining the extreme, although not fully and still a majority of the party refuses that alliance. But I really feel LFI carries the old left ideas.