French legislative elections, 2017

[Svartalf]

General De Gaulle used to say that French folk are calves, he was wrong, they are sheeple.

Right after electing that unnameable wretch macron president, they are about to grant him a 3/4 majority in the National Assembly, no serious opposition, the traditional right maginalized, the fascists won't even get enough reps to form a proper political group in the assembly, and the left fragmented into bits too small to count.

I'm disgusted.

[NineBerry]

Pick up some arms and storm the Bastille.

[Forty Two]

[Scot Dutchy]

General De Gaulle used to say that French folk are calves, he was wrong, they are sheeple.

Right after electing that unnameable wretch macron president, they are about to grant him a 3/4 majority in the National Assembly, no serious opposition, the traditional right maginalized, the fascists won't even get enough reps to form a proper political group in the assembly, and the left fragmented into bits too small to count.

I'm disgusted.

You dont like him?

[Svartalf]

I despise him. he's an arrivist who is of the left like I'm an archbishop.

[JimC]

Svarty, it seems that there are no French politicians you like at all...

Fair enough too, I'm a bit the same about Oz politicians. Their main preoccupation is the trough, with a side serve of enjoyable school boy fights with the opposition...

[Svartalf]

Show me an honest politician, maybe I'll like that...

[Scot Dutchy]

Who is honest these days?

[Svartalf]

I don't know, but politicians lie and make false promises and serve themselves rather than those whom they are supposed to represent and I hate their guts.

[Hermit]

I don't know, but politicians lie and make false promises and serve themselves rather than those whom they are supposed to represent and I hate their guts.

Not the dead ones. So we can conclude that dead politicians are good politicians. Does anyone have a suggestion about how we might go about increasing the number of good politicians?

[Svartalf]

a nice revolution might do the trick... problem is that there might be a backlash afterwards... I can only remember how Robespierre and Fouquier-Tinville ended at the end of the Reign of Terror...

[JimC]

I don't know, but politicians lie and make false promises and serve themselves rather than those whom they are supposed to represent and I hate their guts.

Not the dead ones. So we can conclude that dead politicians are good politicians. Does anyone have a suggestion about how we might go about increasing the number of good politicians?

Would lampposts be involved?

[Svartalf]

the good old National Razor would me more traditional here.

[JimC]

So, they would be cut to the quick...

[Svartalf]

they need to have their ambitions shortened.

but hanging them out to dry is not a bad thing either.