Re: Politics, or lack of same

On 6/12/2024 1:46 am, john larkin wrote:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/europe/france-political-mire-macron-kicking-himself-analysis-intl/index.html
 Parlimentary systems seem chaotic to me. In the USA, we schedule such
trauma to happen every four years. In europe, the chaos is high rate
random time sampled.

That's not the right way to look at it. The US lacks an orderly mechanism to get rid of an incompetent administration rapidly.
Donald Trump served out his first term as president, despite his incompetence leading to a lot of extra American deaths from Covid-19, and has a fair chance of getting all the way through his second term despite being older and even sillier now.

I guess there worse things than having no government. No running water
or no beer maybe.

Running water depends on local government - it's one of those natural monopolies. The lunatic privatisation freaks would like to turn it into a closely regulated private enterprise - ENRON showed the folly of that approach, but lunatics don't learn from experience.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney