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People. We, the French, pulled a left-wing coalition out of our asses in less than a week and managed to "win" an election. You have months. Hope is permitted.
It's very true. We've been brainwashed into a year long campaign mostly because it generates a lot of money for various parties but prior elections have proven it's mostly what happens in the last month that makes a difference.
Y'all are lucky you can make coalitions, though. This is more akin to your election if you only had centrists and far right running. Two party system and all that.
I think you'll start to see a lot more excitement in the next few weeks.
I'm already noticing a lot of hype for Kamala 🤞
I mean, ok, what's not to hype? The second Black president, but in two centuries, it would be the first woman. The right's heads will collectively explode if she wins.
Mmmm you know this would be quite the upside
The last time a black person became president, they got Trump. A black woman president will be...Super Trump?
I shudder to think what they could come up with that would worse than Trump, because we know there is no depth the bar can't sink to
A guy just as completely lacking in any sort of shame, morals, or empathy, but actually smart. He'd also have to be smart enough to hide the fact that he's smart, because the GOP relies on the "really fucking stupid" vote.
So we need a French immigrant to help fix the government?
"Hope and change" is back in it to win it.
Motherfucking Obama at it again.
Lol, Obama comming back would be incredible. Is he even allowed to? He already served two terms
He's not allowed to but people are saying Michelle could be the pick, but that would only be marginally better than Kamala
They need Gretchen, Pete, or Kelly
Jon Stewart. Someone go pull him and make him do it. There's no one better to take down Trump.
He'd be miserable the whole time, but we'd all be better off. Please Jon!
I mean I'd love it and I'm going back and forth on this comment. His biggest negative is those who lean right will see him exactly as he is "a New York Jew"
That said, who better to trounce Trump and humiliate his ass? I think the only thing better would be Michelle Obama. Trump would lose his absolute shit debating and/or losing to a woman let alone a black woman.
Watch that fucker drop the N bomb in a debate against her lol
A 2-woman ticket would never work. It's going to be very dicey having a woman leading the ticket with a man as VP, given how sexist the US electorate is.
What's sexist is going on and on about how a woman is unelectable.
Yes, reality is sexist. But, you can't just live in a fantasy land.
A friend of mine was running a restaurant, and before a major business meeting, her 2nd said that he should do all the talking because the other party was sexist and wouldn't listen to a woman.
She fired his ass, rightfully. That is not what progress looks like. Step up and fight against sexism, don't concede to that shit.
Can someone find the "hope is kindled" gif from LoTR Return of the King? When Pipin lights the beacon of Minas Tirith. I can't find it.
You are a wonderful human. May you find 20 bucks in a pocket of the next coat you put on
Thanks for your support! And very happy to see your success in France.
You, the French, have not been the target of a 40 year war against public education by the right wing. Americans are on average significantly less capable of rational thought because of it. Source: I am an American raised in the crippled education system I mentioned before.
It’s a bit naive to think Western Europe hasn’t been under attack from the right wing at least as long as the US has. They’ve had wars over it that never really reached US shores, and it never really went away. All of the strategies that have been used in the US were piloted and honed in Europe – look up the activities there by Manafort, Stone, Bannon, etc. all the same names who have been implementing the shit you’re seeing in the US were active in Western and Eastern Europe years before this. It’s been going on there far longer.
It’s amazing to me that people in the US haven’t been paying attention to what’s gone on there and learning from their successes.
A "long" election campaign in the UK is 6 weeks. In 1992 they had one that was just 30 days.
Months is plenty of time, especially in the modern world. Maybe 250 years ago it was necessary to campaign for months on end so that the candidate could personally travel by train to every state. But, with modern media (both traditional and social), there's no real reason for campaigns to be as long as they are. The only reason they're this long is that the thought is that the earlier you start campaigning, the better. So, each side keeps starting earlier and earlier, making it effectively into a neverending campaign cycle.
US election campaigns have gotten longer, not storter in modern times. The reasons are complicated but mostly shitty.
Yeah, probably infinite money being pumped in allowing campaigns to start earlier and earlier.
Thank you, French. You're awesome. I was losing hope, and yet a miracle happened.
Good job.
Props to the French voters for shutting out the Rally.
Most of the French voters.
Damn good job in the second round.
Thank you
Well spoken.
A few months in politics is an eternity. Yes, things are chaotic right now, but this is short term. We can unify after this. And we can win.
We don't really do coalitions here. Our voting system doesn't allow for it.
It does happen within Congress itself though, when different sects of the two parties cross the aisle to join with the other party on certain issues. But since Congress doesn't elect a prime minister, it doesn't happen for the presidency.
I know. You're missing my point. :)
My point wasn't the coalition. My point was that we had 21 days to cobble something together and not only did we do it, we managed to win with it. It's not about the coalition, it's about building a campaign. You have months to do so.
And you're about to say that Trump had way longer to do so. Yes. So did the far right in our country, which barely even campaigned because all of the media were doing so on their behalf for the last two years and we still managed to outnumber them.
Trust me, my faith in the Democrats is barely existent. But still, I think it can be done.
Viva la France
It's a binary choice in the US presidential election, that isn't even based on the popular vote.
The regime provides two choices, people do a circle jerk, regime gets their candidate.
Win win!
Unless you work for money
Lord have merci
Why'd you put "win" in quotes?
Because we only have a relative majority and now Macron is teaming up with the hard right (not the far right, the other right right that is not center right... Yeah, too much right is wrong) to deprive us of any path to government. Shit sucks. But it could have sucked way harder.
It's also a strategic moderate move to keep the hard right from merging with Reform.
I'm hoping the left wing parties aren't locked out and still able to get progress made.
Cuddling up to the hard right might look like a strategical move but it never works. Normalising them only shifts the discussion further to the right. And let's face it... in this post-factual time where all that matters is the narratives, giving them a platform will only help to brain-wash more people into believing right-wing fake-solutions to actual problems.
Couldn't agree more.
Because, well, the left coalition came out ahead of the vote but then started to loose ground to political shenanigans. War is not over but a significant battle was lost.
I fuckin' hope so. 🤞🏽
France W
America has no left wing. The dems have now handed Trump the win since its way too late to change the candidate and Harris is completely invisible
