Paying the bills

[kandrathe]

I see.

You are now playing the apologist for a form of governance wherein if you don't win an election, you have the right to riot. I was under the impression that the ideal to be achieved was to hold the elections, and if the other party wins this one, you redouble your own efforts, if on the losing side, to win the next one. I note that the nation where you live works under that rubric.

How odd, that you now seem to prefer the threat of violence as a trump to an election.

Anarchy much?

No, not communism. Anarchy as a prelude to a replay of the Terror? Not sure, but the real estate is the same.

Royal was running on a socialist ticket. Her NOT winning was root cause of the riots, so the riots are rooted in her support in a segment of the population. Since I am not convinced that the garden variety French Socialist was a rioter, I presume it was a client: a subest of the electorate who the socialists pandered to in an effort to gain votes.

The suspiscion that something more nefarious is at work I won't comment on without further info.

Occhi

Probably not communism outright, more likely some twisted form of fascism. Royal's rioters bear more resemblance to "Brown Shirts" than anything I've seen in Europe since WWII. Never mind that Royal was defeated by a large margin. I had heard also that she had incited her followers to riot. It is not a coincidence that Nazism was a form of National Socialism where the nanny State knows best how to run your affairs. It is heartening to me that perhaps there are a slight majority in France that understand that economic liberalization is preferable to State control of capital. I would just point out that France is the poster child of the Socialist agenda, so I look at their failing economy and social woes as the fruits of socialism.

France has been on the verge if not in full out civil war for over a year. No one mentions much here in the US media that over 5,000 police officers have been injured in rioting in France in the past year. But, hey! What's that Baghdad body count up to today? I could find that out in a heartbeat. Frankly, in a geopolitical sense, I'm more concerned about the failure of a European democracy and ally than I am about some oil rich oasis on the fertile crescent.