@abolitionniste @pgcd @xChaos @riff @SpiceOdissey
Well, now. My embargo is over so I can finally confess: I don't care about left/right. I'm a normie, I don't have an education or a natural disposition towards Grand Political Ideas. A friend once called our local apparatchiks "ideologycels", right before adding: "This is why you keep getting your arses kicked by the conservatives" and I can't unhear that. I can't take their programme seriously because they were a cobbled together "attelage"

@abolitionniste @pgcd @xChaos @riff @SpiceOdissey
(DeepL says that's "combination", "vychytávka" in Czech) of parties who agree on almost nothing and which was never designed for governing or sticking to electoral promises. Initially, they could easily drop whatever demagoguery they wanted on that list just to ensure some safe seats for spineless nobodies like Olivier Faure. Now that there are irl consequences (especially for the ones with 2027 ambitions), well... 😏

@abolitionniste @pgcd @xChaos @riff @SpiceOdissey
things have changed, suddenly organising scarcity (via blocking prices) and blowing up inflation is going to be difficult to implement.
This is where the world of Grand Political Ideas meets the messy flesh of humans involved in politics (this includes us, voters, we incentivise their behaviour).
So good thing job no. 1 is done, the Republic is safe for now, but it's not the programme that's going to matter now, imo.

@abolitionniste That would be the most shocking outcome to me given the maturity level, political skill and culture of compromise of what's left of LR and PS, but sure, it's one of the options.
In the meantime a budget with at least SOME level of compliance with the EU's Germany-imposed new-SGP rules will need to be passed. The impossibility of passing it under the old AN triggered the elections And here comes the beauty of democracy: "Well, you did vote to pay higher taxes, your choice." 😉