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The French left faces a reality check over 90% wealth tax and lavish spending (inews.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (4 children)

My prediction: Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble alliance will ally with the National Rally to stop New Popular Front from doing much at all.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Liberals siding with fascists to prevent leftists from making positive change, episode 47829...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'll take garden variety disagreements about economic policies over power seizure any day of the week. Compromise and not getting all the things you want is a hallmark of a healthy democracy.

This is how low the bar is and I lay 100% blame on authoritarians more interested in grabbing power than compromising themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Democracy is when everything sucks and gets worse every year while centrists keep eyeing Nazis as possible better allies than the left.

If you force the government to improve society in any what you're an "authoritarian" (oooh, how scary. btw, I'm pretty sure "authoritarian" as a cudgel against the left that equates them to the right is against board rules).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

weimar republic moment

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

They don't need to ally. They can just drag their feet to sabotage any significant reforms and wait for the left to lose their mandate