will the west ever stop selling out the young for the benefit of the old? (no)
SenranHaruka on
Vader voice “now his failure is complete”
Godzilla52 on
It’d actually be an interesting question to ask whether France or the U.S is more politically dysfunctional right now. Macron’s government is obviously more competent & well intentioned than Trump’s by any objective measurement, but the hyper-partisanship of it’s left and right wing parties is making the country almost ungovernable.
In the U.S by contrast, it’s mainly the Republicans contributing to obstructionism and political dysfunction.
Worth-Jicama3936 on
What’s the downside to just having no government in France? Places like Spain or Belgium run without them all the time, was there a reason he needed to be reappointed?
erasmus_phillo on
Just posting this image for context here of pension spending in the EU by all the eurozone countries. France spends the most on pensions as a percentage of GDP of any Eurozone nation:
One of my friends who is a foreign exchange student and used to be a staunch Macronist and center-right guy who HATED RN is now seriously leaning to RN. He’s been getting more & more disillusioned with Macron due to his economic policies and what he called “fiscal cowardice”. The pension reform Macron passed was anyways moderate. It raises the retirement age from 62 to 64 gradually. Big whoop. The average pensioner still earners more than the average worker in France. Yet he was still defending Macron but now he’s pissed and I can’t blame him. I personally would support Les Republicans if I were a disillusioned Macronist but I get why he’s pissed. Macron & his centrist alliance were supposed to be the economic pragmatists. With RN becoming more economically liberal under Jordan Bardella (they’re still far right socially no doubt), I can see why disillusioned centrists who are economically liberal might be more willing to drift to the far right. This is promoting more economic instability in order to buy a few more months of political stability. Dumb move.
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will the west ever stop selling out the young for the benefit of the old? (no)
Vader voice “now his failure is complete”
It’d actually be an interesting question to ask whether France or the U.S is more politically dysfunctional right now. Macron’s government is obviously more competent & well intentioned than Trump’s by any objective measurement, but the hyper-partisanship of it’s left and right wing parties is making the country almost ungovernable.
In the U.S by contrast, it’s mainly the Republicans contributing to obstructionism and political dysfunction.
What’s the downside to just having no government in France? Places like Spain or Belgium run without them all the time, was there a reason he needed to be reappointed?
Just posting this image for context here of pension spending in the EU by all the eurozone countries. France spends the most on pensions as a percentage of GDP of any Eurozone nation:
https://preview.redd.it/62h0rd1ub6vf1.png?width=950&format=png&auto=webp&s=72f8ecba364dff7f74d400211748ee2b8ae90f3a
One of my friends who is a foreign exchange student and used to be a staunch Macronist and center-right guy who HATED RN is now seriously leaning to RN. He’s been getting more & more disillusioned with Macron due to his economic policies and what he called “fiscal cowardice”. The pension reform Macron passed was anyways moderate. It raises the retirement age from 62 to 64 gradually. Big whoop. The average pensioner still earners more than the average worker in France. Yet he was still defending Macron but now he’s pissed and I can’t blame him. I personally would support Les Republicans if I were a disillusioned Macronist but I get why he’s pissed. Macron & his centrist alliance were supposed to be the economic pragmatists. With RN becoming more economically liberal under Jordan Bardella (they’re still far right socially no doubt), I can see why disillusioned centrists who are economically liberal might be more willing to drift to the far right. This is promoting more economic instability in order to buy a few more months of political stability. Dumb move.