Posted on 10/08/2025 4:47:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
France’s government has collapsed -- again. With the resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, the fragility of European politics is once more on full display. Trapped between party deadlock, eco-socialist dogma, and a reform-weary public, France offers the blueprint for what could soon become the next Eurozone crisis.
After Lecornu’s abrupt resignation Monday morning -- just hours after being sworn in -- President Emmanuel Macron must once again find a new head of government. By now, Macron is well-practiced at this ritual: this marks his third attempt in a single year to form a stable cabinet.
Only a month earlier, Lecornu’s predecessor François Bayrou failed to push through a budget consolidation plan that Parliament deemed too harsh. The logical next step would be new elections. But Macron knows that a vote now would deliver a clear victory to Marine Le Pen’s conservative-national bloc. And so, Paris will continue to muddle through -- buying time, projecting a façade of stability, while the fiscal foundation of the French state lies in ruins.
A Banana Republic Without Hope
France -- without disrespect—has begun to resemble a banana republic. One can’t help but recall the South American regimes that never quite got on their feet, forever gripped by cronyism and corruption aimed at squeezing the middle class dry.
In France, a political stalemate between the Left and the Right blocks any serious reform of a welfare state that has grown – or rather overgrown -- for decades.
Key social debates, such as ending the deliberate tolerance of illegal migration (a problem Germany knows well), are deliberately banished from public discussion.
France and Germany now march hand in hand toward economic depression. Entrapped in the political Bermuda Triangle of Brussels, Paris, and Berlin, both have surrendered to an eco-socialist ideology while pursuing open-border policies to absurd
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The failure of leftism all over again.
Europe has been doing two things for decades...
Cooking their books and fleecing US taxpayers.
Pres. Trump has cut off the cash.
Europe’s welfare states are about to go bust.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer continent.
I would like an International Right for Christmas. How much does that cost? It has to be cheaper than the international left!
YES
Sooner than later reality gets its revenge!
The Religion of Pieces is a big part of Europe’s problems today.
Will these often-arrogant euros ever learn? Their lefty attitudes are only surviving this long because idiots in the USA government have allowed them to be parasites on the USA taxpayer for many decades.
Enough already! Let them collapse.
Near?
Europe has another problem. Their demographics are terrible. They stopped having kids at anywhere near the rate needed to sustain themselves 35 years ago. They’ve tried to paper over the cracks by letting in hordes of military age males from Muslim and African countries........see if you can spot the flaw here. Those people have no education, no job skills and instead of contributing to the host countries by working productively, instead sit around, leach social welfare payments from the host countries and commit crimes.
Western European countries already can’t afford their lavish social welfare states. What happens as more and more productive native Europeans retire and more and more Muslim and African freeloaders flood in?
I trust europes can take care of europes and I do not care a whiff.
Have a civil war or not, fight russia or not. No care. You get you to whatever point you get you, and you get you in deeper or get you self out.
Anacyclosis shows us that now is the time for dictators to emerge across Europe to “make the trains run on time”.
https://anacyclosis.org/portfolio/what-is-anacyclosis/
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