France General Discussion II: Living under Marxism

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So basically, Hollande is probably the French version of Bill Clinton, with all the serial womanizing...

Hollande would be Bill Clinton if Hillary got the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 1988, she failed which privately delighted Bill. Bill got the nod in '92 and won the presidency off the back of some serious cheerleading done by top-notch CNN journalist Monica Lewinsky that during her relationship with Bill skewered Hillary in the press without fail during her presidential run...

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French male teens appear to be a progressive bunch. At least in Nantes.

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http://www.thelocal.fr/20140516/in-pictures-french-schoolboys-wear-skirts-to-class

First time in a long while French people have made me proud. Unsurprisingly, it's young people, who 90% of the time are far better human beings than their elders.

When a guy with a Greek avatar calls the Socialist Party Prime Minister "Fuhrer", I agree.

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Seeing as Montebourg can't himself stop austerity even if he were to become President of France because France when they gave up the franc and launched the euro gave up sovereign control of their economy to the European Central Bank, what would he do? Put a gun to Mario Draghi's head forcing him to do American-style quantitative easing/Japanese-style Abenomics?

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I remember before the prior election on another board I'm on a very cynical Corsican reviewing the upcoming election. He painted the issue as a fight over the French mafia family and everyone wanting to win something that was going to go downhill anyway. Well, time has proved his point of view right. The other Frenchmen on the board were not near as cynical but all pretty thought the country was ed because they could have Sarkozy who they didn't think much of as president, or Hollande who was a horrible candidate put forth by the Socialists.

So pretty much we have a situation where the true Gaullists are failures and the true Socialists are failures.

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And also when things don't work very well, French people like to burn the place. I am surprised by the number of perfectly sane people I know who consider that the French and European political and economic systems have been complete failures, and thus that the best thing to do is to bring down everything and start anew.

Why? Look at French history, even in more modern post-World War II times, it's standard practice.