The French elections just happened and the far left scored an absolute landslide
YES! Let's hope similar results happen in America next.
36-40, F
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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
I mean I would love for that to be true. The thing is the "victory" in France is not really what it seems. Sure the left won but we are talking about a coalition of leftist parties many of which can't agree on anything except "No to Le Pen." From an American perspective we are talking a group that includes everyone from the likes of Jill Stein, AOC, all the way to revolutionary communists.
Also they don't have enough seats to do anything without an alliance with the Macron neo liberal centrists. Interestingly a similar alliance in the 70-80s led to the French Communist Party going from a serious political force to being rendered largely irrelevant and replaced by left of centre liberals of the Socialist Party.
I mean I would love to see serious changes to the left but that also means being realistic about what happened here.
Also they don't have enough seats to do anything without an alliance with the Macron neo liberal centrists. Interestingly a similar alliance in the 70-80s led to the French Communist Party going from a serious political force to being rendered largely irrelevant and replaced by left of centre liberals of the Socialist Party.
I mean I would love to see serious changes to the left but that also means being realistic about what happened here.