politics

I hate to be a downer but... It is good and valuable that the fash didn't do as well as all the talking heads on TV predicted/hoped. It is also good that the centre-left coalition is the largest block, ahead of the various reactionary ones.

But... but... We are celebrating that the "left", and by left we include succdems and libs, got roughly a third of the seats in parliament. That the left, by the widest possible definition of the term, is a minority.

I don't know French politics but I know centrist liberals. They might be mad about the fash eating their lunch but ultimately they are going to follow the class interest they represent and side with the fash against the left, especially if the fash offers to support a liberal government in return for crackdowns on those deemed inferior.

Sweden used to be the prime example of "good liberals" with the succdems and the "respectable" right agreeing to keep the fascist SD party away from all influence. But in the end the temptation grew too big and now Sweden is ruled by a right-wing regime supported by the fash.

I will be surprised if the "respectable" French centre-right doesn't end up doing something similar in the end.

ok france still sucks

Always knew French people were based! Don't check my posting history.

I was happy about this, then I saw that they want to keep sending weapons to Ukraine and back a two-state solution in Palestine. Still better than the demokkkrats but that’s a low bar. The French left still hasn’t learned how they lost everything after 1945 because of their appalling foreign policy, especially with regard to Algeria and Vietnam.

HOPE MANIFESTED

I have said this before and I will say this again: Macron will use the legislature deadlock to consolidate the power of executive branch for himself. The end result is the concentration of power towards the President, and away from the Prime Minister.

Wake me up if they actually start implementing non-neoliberal policies

I imagine these polls are framed along the lines of the US ones where they ask shit like "on a scale of 1 to 5, how liberal are you?"

Commune of France when???

How 'left' are the NPF? Soc dem?

So what stops the Macronites & the far right forming a coalition?

Real Gallic Patriots are in charge

Trust in the plan

BEND LE KNEE

AAHHAHAAAAAaaaaAAAA the French..... Champagne

A couple of thoughts:

1. I seem to recall the French electoral left being plagued by infighting and factionalism. They really came together this election and turned it around.
2. Electoralism is ultimately a dead end, of course, but I feel like the French left leans more into direct action than their more timid counterparts in places like the US. Seems like this gives them an edge that other western left movements don't have.

I'm not French so maybe I'm way off on this. Please correct me if so.