Joe Biden ends re-election campaign - Blåhaj Lemmy
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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
    203·
    2 years 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.

      • Pilferjinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years 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.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 years ago

    French have been our homes since Day 0. Always got solidarity for our brothers in democracy over there. They got way more spice and fight than we do.

  • kindenough@kbin.earth
    1·
    2 years ago

    The French were fighting and an inspiration for US independence.

    Rousseau, for one, spoke of sovereignty residing not in a monarch, but in the people as a group, and of the need to craft laws for the general good. Thomas Jefferson’s rhetoric (including “All men are created equal”) owed much to Rousseau. However, the drafters of the U.S. Constitution may have been most inspired by the Baron de Montesquieu, who argued in his treatise The Spirit of the Laws that avoiding despotism required a government of checks and balances.

    Without the ideas of these French philosophers to inspire them in tough times, it’s hard to imagine the revolution succeeding.