The French may not have the first democracy, may not have the best democracy, but they have had to fight harder than most for their democracy.
- paraphrasing from an audio tour by Rick Steves, I think.
Edit: oops, i flipped words in the title
What if Americans decided to be a little more like the French and instead of just surrendering to the fucking literally swastika waving Nazis we just did the fucking bare minimum and VOTE
But instead we’ll get four more years of orange geriatric Hitler because young people won’t vote. It would be funny, if it wasn’t happening here.
The people did vote. They voted trump out of office. If you’re talking about the upcoming election, well that’s still months away, so you have no idea what the turnout will be like.
His point about the nazis not disappearing after the election is a tremendous problem that’s not going to go away. We need to figure out the root causes of it and address it properly. Hint: it’s establishment corruption taking too much too quickly.
French have been our homes since Day 0. Always got solidarity for our brothers in democracy over there. They got way more spice and fight than we do.
I agreed with you until the last sentence.
I don’t see Americans unionising and making a noise about rising pension ages
Unionization is on the rise and they’ve been more active than at any point in my life. There have been several large strikes in the last couple years alone. What are you talking about?
Let’s be real here: the French have no chill when it comes to the pension, but its nice to see some change in the US.
I dont see Americans burning down Blackrock buildings.
They were marching and burning down police stations four years ago.
If its gonna be a dick measuring contest wake me when Americans pull politicians onto the street and behead them.
