I’m afraid my take on the French since de Gaulle left the scene is that from time to time they get tired of Communists and socialists and vote them out, but that the conservatives who replace them have almost always been afraid to DO anything.
Much like the RINOs in the U.S.
The current Communist in Charge is a nutball, but I don’t see much hope that his replacement will do much to really undo the underlying damage. Sarkozy talked a good fight before he first came into power, but again he didn’t do much, notably against the Muslim threat.
Maybe Cope might be different, but the precedents make that pretty doubtful, IMHO. Undoing a cradle-to-death entitlement system isn’s easy.
I agree: undoing the social welfare state will not be easy. It’s like an addiction.
Sarko did his best to start the process. Hollande is a total catastrophe, personally and politically. Polls show him in the 35% approval zone, with 64% of UMP and an ever growing number of French who want him back, as the candidate in 2017.
To those ill-informed dolts who think the next president will be a woman, as in Marine Le Pen, think again, ma chéri. MLP is a Bational Socialist who believes in the State and not individual liberty and responsibility. She is her father, or l’Oncle Adolf in drag.
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