Is there any lesson to be taken from the French moderate liberal and left earnestly trying to cooperate and help one another defeat a reactionary threat to democracy? Yes there is, until anyone one degree off from my personal political leanings pisses me off over anything, and I mean anything.
Also, that's a lot of words to say "If the current polls are accurate, Biden just needs to win Michigan and Wisconsin - currently tossups - and flip only one of Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona"
It definitely is the better outcome. It'd just be nice if people recognized that it was a "lesser of two evils" situation, rather than an unalloyed good
there were legit concerns that came out of the debate! I shared those legit concerns!
since then:
1) the polling has stubbornly refused to fall off a cliff
2) Biden has done enough to convince me, and I think convince anyone else who's being fair, that he doesn't have dementia.
agreed
fortunately however, he seems to be considered at least debatable not just by his NFP partners but also by many of his LFI comrades
and he will undoubtedly never be Prime Minister
so let‘s hope for the best…
There are a ton of quotes like this, so each person cites something else. Then there are translation artifacts - how do you translate the paragraph whose gist is "France didn't collaborate with the Nazis because I have decided to define Vichy as not-France"?
He's the head of the largest party in the governing coalition and former leader of the opposition in the prior parliament, no? So I would expect him to be. But I'd be glad to be wrong about that
He's the head of the largest party; likely to be the next PM, as far as I can tell. "Presumptively the next Prime Minister of France" is pretty ascendant, IMO
BTW, I'm pleased that NR lost in France.
But it's pretty tough to celebrate the ascendancy of a guy who called French Jews “an arrogant minority that lectures to the rest” in a 2017 speech.
BTW, search that quote here on Bluesky and you'll find only one post mentioning it - the one above. (Unless everyone else who bothered has blocked me, I guess.)
Do people just not know this about Melanchon? Or does it just not matter?
"How the US first-past-the-post two-party system with an electoral college is exactly like this multi-party parliamentary democracy with multiple runoff elections" and other things the brainworms whispered in my ear.
Except that negative partisanship drove a huge number of votes *against* corbyn's Labour in much the same way it does against Trump here. Do you think that turnout was so high in 2019 because people just loved Boris Johnson? Also, that was the brexit election
The best tweet of the day… no, the month.
I really didn’t know that the neo-Nazis had these many sympathizers. If you are still wondering how millions of people perished in concentration & death camps, well, it starts with people like this guy. Yes, I’m saying it & meaning it quite literally.
The lesson of the French elections really seems to be “only a united coalition can beat back the forces of tyranny” and not so much about whether leftism or centrism are inherently superior political philosophies.
