Comments by "Boarface Swinejaw" (@boarfaceswinejaw4516) on "What Does Le Pen Actually Plan To Do? - TLDR News" video.

  1.  @sionsmedia8249  National socialism is something completely different in terms of structure.
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  2. Its hard not to be in the Macron camp, even just by proxy, when Le Pen is an outright fan of Putin.
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  3.  @veggiesupreme3556  she is domestically and economically different because the overton window of economic and domestic politics in europe is way further left.
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  4.  @veggiesupreme3556  i do think its important to consider the concept of Political trajectory. economically conservative parties in europe and whatnot very much want to privatize the healthcare system and introduce similar political policies to the republicans, but they have to work gradually to get to that point.
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  5. it sounds good until you realize that most people below 30 who pay income tax are already wealthy, and people above 30 who arent wealthy will suddenly be met with a heavier tax burden. This prospect becoming even more daunting once you realize that its around 30 or so people tend to have kids.
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  6.  @theodorefruchart7058  thats because french, and europeans in general, dont have to sit and wonder whether the next hospital visit is going to bankrupt them or not. We often forget how economically comfortable we are with our social safety nets, so playing populist nationalist for a bit becomes more viable.. right up until said populist takes away your economic safety.
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  7.  @stephenjenkins7971  "almost no americans worry about being bankrupted by lack of healthcare" now, thats a straight up lie. there is a reason why healthcare coverage is such an important topic for presidential candidates, and why something even as horribly flawed as obamacare is preferably to nothing at all, and why Trump ran on the idea that he'd introduce "trumpcare" to replace obamacare, a promise he promptly dropped because he is a conservative to the chagrin of a hefty portion of his voters, though fortunately being that many of them are elderly they do have access to medicaid. Tons of americans worry daily about healthcare costs, be they pharmacutical or from hospital visits, with 31 million americans being completely without healthcare coverage at all. Fuck sake, just look at the cost of insulin in the US, and considering the presence of diabetus and obesity in the US, it on its own detail a nasty trajectory of american medicinal coverage. as if the failure to properly respond to the pandemic wasnt indicative enough of widespread medical illiteracy and outright distrust.
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  8.  @veggiesupreme3556  (sorry, long reply) TL;DR, Privatization is how it starts. the US once had a ton of healthcare programs and strong worker unions, until they were busted apart and shut down by corporate interests with profit-motives that ran contradictory to the non-profit social services that existed. thats how it starts. "we just want to privatize parts of it to make it more efficient", and before you know it costs and whatnot rise whilst medical personel gets less and less, because the motive becomes profit and profit cuts corners. But because the early costs only affects a small portion of the population (those who have to pay out of pocket) whilst most people get a small cut to their taxes, the problem grows gradually enough to be easily ignored and swept under the rug. The US once had several strong healthcare options (not quite universal, but there were different programs meant to give a foothold to the concept) alongside strong worker unions and whatnot, but increased pushes for "privatization" citing the inefficiencies of governmental ran programs has repeatedly killed off any staging point for universal healthcare. Once you introduce profit-motives into something thats supposed to be inherently unprofitable (at least directly. having a populace who can seek medical aid whenever they need to results in a net:gain in terms of employment and overall GDP) you've already injected the proverbial dogshit into a wound under the pretense of covering it up. its only a question of time before it becomes infected. and understand, im not anti-capitalist or some shit. i prefer living in a society where the individual can pursue careers and paths that allow them to reap the benefit of their own creation and become wealthy or rich. But having seen the american medical dystopia, and how conservative parties in europe want to not only emulate but outright copy aspects of republican politics, i am extremely wary of it. edit: now, not all right wing parties are nessecarily outright pro-privatization of healthcare and other social services, but 99 times out of a 100 the populism concerning immigration, nationalism, outsourcing etc are just smokescreens to push for more corporate powers within government and social services.
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  9.  @InciniumVGC  Until you realize that Le Pen would spend her presidency appeasing Putin and China (because they are a package deal), selling France piece by piece whilst dissolving what democracy france has. And thats assuming France doesnt one day fall under Russia's list of countries to be annexed.
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  10.  DEx Stev  because her other economic proposals such as tax cuts and whatnot are thoroughly right wing, and the economically "left wing" policies of her are only truly left wing in the american sense where any economic policy that doesnt start off with a prefix of "fuck the poor" is considered communism.
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