These are the same people that voted for the guy Macron.
What did they expect? He is doing what he said he’d do.
There are two groups in France: those who want free stuff, and those who pay for the free stuff. The average citizen probably thought it was themselves and government, respectively. But it’s the other way around.
These are the same people that voted for the guy Macron.
What did they expect? He is doing what he said he’d do.
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Socialism is voted in by those ignorant enough to think it’ll work and or those greedy enough to think they are deserving of more than their neighbor. Then the bill arrives.
The French election ‘gimmick’ is a bit different and some ought to review it, and what happened in 2017.
Under the French system, a multi-party atmosphere exists. Eleven parties had active participation in the run-up election (March 2017). But if you go back to the six months prior....there were probably over sixty folks competing within eleven parties.
Various people who were figured in the fall of 2016 to come out on top....were tossed into scandal episodes, and fell to the side. In one case, a guy had his wife hired in previous years for some outrageous amount of salary. That single detail knocked him out.
So when the smoke cleared after the primary, you had two ‘players’ (Le Pen and Macron). Six months prior....neither of the two would have been predicted as the final two. At this point, they move onto the final election (23 April 2017). The idea is that you would have voters from the lesser candidates have to make a decision, and support some candidate....with the thought that you are ‘for’ the individual. It’s a fake feeling, but the French political establishment believes this will really settle matters.
So Macron ends up with 66-percent of the vote. In truth...more than two-thirds of these votes are from non-Macron voters. They are basically saying...if you only have a choice of Macron or Le Pen....well, it’s not much of a choice.
All the weaknesses in Macron’s background, his lack of being elected to any office prior, or the humorous marriage to ‘mother’? All noted, but with the way this is built...it didn’t matter. I expect the riots to continue, with the police at some point accidentally killing someone and creating a ‘hero’ situation. This past week....one of the tear gas canisters ended up around some old pensioner lady, and she ended up coughing herself to death.
“These are the same people that voted for the guy Macron.
What did they expect? He is doing what he said he’d do.”
Well, yes. But, they didn’t think he’d do it to them!
Two observations. The crowd is demanding, among other things, more socialism. This is what led to taxes being so high in the first place. High taxes is what they are mad about. And, two, there is no leader. Not only does that make it impossible to make a deal to stop the rioting, it also is a first class indicator that the French government has failed so massively that nothing the government does is going to fix this.
The pièce de résistance is; Macron decided to raise taxes, not to improve socialism, but to further a nutty global warming agenda (religion) that few believe in. I think he could have gotten away with higher taxes if he could demonstrate that they were going towards higher living standards and earlier retirement. That was part of the sales pitch, but the word leaked out it was an effort to drive everyone to buy an electric only car by 2030.
Incidentally, there is a way to drive up salaries and living standards. It’s called capitalism.
Maybe these people voted for LE Pen? How the f do you know who they are?