Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "France's Stunning Election Results Explained" video.

  1. So overall, not much changes but the far right gains more seats, it sounds like stalemate will be the thing for France over the next few years as it's likely going to be difficult to get things done, or at the very least, a lot of watering down of policies. Sometimes, I just wonder if it's best to let the radical elements win, so that they expose themselves with their radical policies, voters patterns will change once they start to feel the impact of their decisions in a negative way, but as long as the far right is out of power but gaining seats, they can pretty much say whatever they want, twist the truth and lie with little to no cost to them, but if they were in power, it's a different ball game, there policies have a direct impact on the people, and if they mess things up, voters are not likely going to be too forgiving to them. So basically, let them into power, allow them to fall on their own sword so on the next election, voters can wipe them out, worse thing that can happen is a dictatorship, because history has shown that far left and far right parties usually try to clamp down on the political system to make it more difficult for other parties to win, but if that were to happen, then the voters only have themselves to blame for being so reckless, either way, what the mainstream parties are doing isn't working as the far right are gaining more seats election after election. If they really want to reduce the risk of the far right, then listening to voters concerns on cost of living, inequality, quality of life and lifting standards for the lower and middle classes, this is the case throughout Europe and in the US and a big part on why the radicals are gaining so much power, because the mainstreams are not listening and are underdelivering and voters are getting desperate enough to vote reckless, now with any luck, we won't have a repeat of the 1030's, there was a lot of anger going around then and that didn't go well for the people, but then, we do seem doomed to repeat history and you have to wonder with what's going on in Europe and North America could lead to disaster, and maybe that needs to happen, because clearly the people are not learning from past mistakes.
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