Exit polls show Sarkozy has lost in France; Greek voters also turn on leaders
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/06/2786366/exit-polls-show-sarkozy-has-lost.html
“French Socialist Francois Hollande appeared headed to victory over President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to exit polls of voters released by Swiss and Belgian news media.
Those polls showed Hollande with 52 to 53 percent of the vote in an election that turned on solutions for Europe’s economic crisis amid record unemployment in France.
French voters were still headed to cast their ballots when the exit polls were released in the early evening - the French polls close at 8 p.m. local time, 2 p.m. Eastern - but the outcome seemed all but certain. “
The return of socialism... People never learn.
I see red in my future...
“The return of socialism... People never learn.”
The French people haven’t yet felt enough effect from their spending habits.
The Greeks have felt it but haven’t yet figured out they can’t vote a return to profligate spending. They feel they have to actually embrace more strongly the socialists who got them into their mess hoping it will return everything to the way it was before. Someday, it will become more generally clear those socialists can’t print prosperity any longer.
Many of the socialists alive today will never change their beliefs and will romanticize their past till their dying days. Expect change to come from younger Greeks who want a better future and are willing to try something different.
Recently, someone pointed out that young, educated Greeks are lining up to get into other countries where they can seek a better future. Greece will never recover from their exit.
I wonder what this will mean for the political world, both locally in France and globally with the USA, Europe, etc?
This time they are going to try socialism with no where to go to pay for anything.
We are about to witness the collapse of France.
For socialism to "return", it would have to have left in the first place. France has always been socialist, no matter what label they call themselves. Ask "conservative" Nicholas Sarkozy how he feels about universal health care.
People who do nothing but consume eventually have nothing left to consume but each other.
Europe is digging it's own grave. If the U.S. voter doesn't wake up, we're going to end up the same way.