The problem in France, Uk, and the US is that quasi-conservative governments alternate with socialist governments. The latter screw things up during their regimes and the former spend all their time correcting the damage when they get in.
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” The latter screw things up during their regimes and the former spend all their time correcting the damage when they get in.”
I think this is far too optimistic. What really happens is the left gets in office and accelerates the rate of everything bad—spening, deficits, power-grabs by government, regulation. Conservatives then get in office as slightly slow down the rate of at which everything bad happens. The decline never stops—it only gets slowed a little.