No matter who you vote for in France: the end result is always higher government spending! State socialism and a state-controlled economy are elements that have become an integral part of French and European thinking. That is why it makes little difference whether you vote left or right - the end result is always a growing state with a sprawling bureaucracy, new social programs and the attempt to buy votes with the printing press.
It is no coincidence that socialist ideas, the overgrown welfare state and the firm belief that complex decentralized economic processes can be transformed into infantile centralism and thus a society of control can be established, originate from European 'thinkers' and welfare state engineers.
They are looking blind at the moment. They don't have any solution. The situation is out of control.
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The political landscape has si much tilted to the left that anything else looks "right wing"
Many people will be surprised when they discover that the French National Rally is actually a left wing socialist party! 😅
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That's what I always say: max welfare state but only for locals
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Overton window
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I am just curious, how did they manage when there were kings and nobility? Did they default all the time still?
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always the same: money manipulation through metal content changes and forced loans or expropriation
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Woods' Law is undefeated
No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain.
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115 sats \ 6 replies \ @TomK OP 1 Jul
in Germany you always get a green Merkel
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That feels literally true for Germany. How long has Merkel been in office?
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16 goddamn years
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We need to hack her cell phone and email
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Hahahaha. Yo, Husein
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We learned our lesson after the disaster that was FDR. Maybe Germany will adopt some tight term limits after this.
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Never ever they are going to change tl
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Maybe this chart by IMF and Bloomberg is a psyop to discourage voting for National Rally ?
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I'm afraid not. Le Pen has repeatedly announced massive government spending programs
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These politicians are paid from people's hard earned money. What they do except dividing them to left and right or mid. In France, there was no need for re-election but they went with it. Wasn't people's money spent in it. I hate politics.
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