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

  • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    204·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Pilferjinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        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.