European Parliament Elections Going Far Right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

I am so relieved the French elections went the way they did, primarily for existential reasons - but seeing the MAGA response of "waah no FAIR" is also pretty rewarding

In these terrifying times, I will take these little moments

There is a lesson here for the US. I hope we are able to prevent a shift towards the extreme right as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

I am so relieved the French elections went the way they did, primarily for existential reasons - but seeing the MAGA response of "waah no FAIR" is also pretty rewarding

In these terrifying times, I will take these little moments

We'll see how you feel about the elections in a year or two. It probably won't take that long, TBH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

I am so relieved the French elections went the way they did, primarily for existential reasons - but seeing the MAGA response of "waah no FAIR" is also pretty rewarding

In these terrifying times, I will take these little moments

There is a lesson here for the US. I hope we are able to prevent a shift towards the extreme right as well.

I am PP and completely agree.

The lesson is that we have to take this seriously - and we have to work together, not tear each other apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

I am so relieved the French elections went the way they did, primarily for existential reasons - but seeing the MAGA response of "waah no FAIR" is also pretty rewarding

In these terrifying times, I will take these little moments

We'll see how you feel about the elections in a year or two. It probably won't take that long, TBH.

I don't think anyone ever said that the fight is over, or that things can never turn the other way. Did they?

But it is very on brand for MAGA to work a threat into any conversation. You love being weird and creepy.

Maybe try being good for once. Maybe try that. Maybe try being constructive. Maybe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This father of several children boasts about not needing to work, thanks to the generosity of the French taxpayers.

“Thanks to a monthly allowance of
3,000 € from Caf, I don't need to work. I say thank you France.”

So beautiful. I’m going to encourage my kids to study abroad in France and hope they might choose to live there. I wish we could enjoy social benefits like this here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

Meh, so what. Parties on the left have always been like cat herding. They all generally want the same things but they all want to do it their own way. They needed a threat to organize better, that's all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

It is democratic: people are not as wed to a party as in the US so it's hard to relate to, and people will unite "for the Republic" against forces threatening it. That's why some candidates bowed out even when the other candidate that could beat the RN was vastly different from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

Isn’t this exactly how a parliamentary government that build coalitions is supposed to work? This is a feature, not a bug.

[Anonymous]

France faces a brutal fiscal crunch. France has an American-style deficit of 5% of GDP, which its central bank expects to come down only slowly. The country’s debt-to-GDP ratio of 111% is similar to Italy’s before the euro crisis in the early 2010s, and is set to rise. S&P Global, a ratings agency, downgraded France’s sovereign-debt rating from AA to AA- on May 31st.

On June 19th the European Commission said it was preparing to put France into an excessive-deficit procedure, meaning the country’s politicians will have to come up with a plan to fix things.

It will be better for nationalists in 2027 to not be blamed for the failures of this government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

It is democratic: people are not as wed to a party as in the US so it's hard to relate to, and people will unite "for the Republic" against forces threatening it. That's why some candidates bowed out even when the other candidate that could beat the RN was vastly different from them.

They kind of have to resort to this when there is no system of ranked choice voting. Ranked choice works better in multi-party systems and tends to work against the most polarising candidates (left or right).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This father of several children boasts about not needing to work, thanks to the generosity of the French taxpayers.

“Thanks to a monthly allowance of
3,000 € from Caf, I don't need to work. I say thank you France.”

I thought conservatives approved of stay at home parents and not having “someone else” raise kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It took 4 parties to combine and 224 candidates to drop out for a win… very “democratic.”

I am so relieved the French elections went the way they did, primarily for existential reasons - but seeing the MAGA response of "waah no FAIR" is also pretty rewarding

In these terrifying times, I will take these little moments

We'll see how you feel about the elections in a year or two. It probably won't take that long, TBH.

I don't think anyone ever said that the fight is over, or that things can never turn the other way. Did they?

But it is very on brand for MAGA to work a threat into any conversation. You love being weird and creepy.

Maybe try being good for once. Maybe try that. Maybe try being constructive. Maybe?

DP. Talk about “weird and creepy” ^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This father of several children boasts about not needing to work, thanks to the generosity of the French taxpayers.

“Thanks to a monthly allowance of
3,000 € from Caf, I don't need to work. I say thank you France.”

I thought conservatives approved of stay at home parents and not having “someone else” raise kids.

I personally would rather not have to fund other people’s children, though.

[Anonymous]

LOL. MAGA sore losers are complaining that the Left "cheated" in the recent French election. Have there ever been, in the entire history of this nation, whinier sore losers than MAGA?

MAGA Fumes Over France Election Results
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075

[Anonymous]

The center and the left forming an uneasy alliance to block National Rally testifies to the growing power of Euro nationalists. It takes time to gain full power.

National Rally seats in the French parliament over the last 12 years:

2012: 2
2017: 8
2022: 89
2024: 140-150

In the meantime acceleration to the bottom will give the most energetic nationalist party emergence.

Rock bottom must be felt… and it’s always lower than people think.