I concede that the French people are much better about smashing shit up when they're angry, and we Americans should learn from that. But don't get too high and mighty until you can actually manage to put a left-wing government in power for a sustained period of time. Don't think we didn't notice that only half of French liberals voted fo…
I concede that the French people are much better about smashing shit up when they're angry, and we Americans should learn from that. But don't get too high and mighty until you can actually manage to put a left-wing government in power for a sustained period of time. Don't think we didn't notice that only half of French liberals voted for the leftists and 20% voted for the far right in the second round, even as 70% of leftists voted for the liberals and functionally zero percent voted for the far right. And the far right got the most raw votes in that first round. You are not much better than us, you just have a more organized--yet only marginally more effective--left movement. You still live in Macron's nightmare of austerity, and you expect praise because you didn't let someone even worse take some of his power.
I concede that the French people are much better about smashing shit up when they're angry, and we Americans should learn from that. But don't get too high and mighty until you can actually manage to put a left-wing government in power for a sustained period of time. Don't think we didn't notice that only half of French liberals voted for the leftists and 20% voted for the far right in the second round, even as 70% of leftists voted for the liberals and functionally zero percent voted for the far right. And the far right got the most raw votes in that first round. You are not much better than us, you just have a more organized--yet only marginally more effective--left movement. You still live in Macron's nightmare of austerity, and you expect praise because you didn't let someone even worse take some of his power.