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

    • Pilferjinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months 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.