Why American Conservatives Are Suddenly Freaking Out About Guillotines

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120. About 80% of the French would agree with you.

No nation on earth hates its government more (and yet loves its own culture more as well) than France. The biggest difference between the French left and the American left is that when the American left gets into power, they try, usually with naïve visions of success and accompanying accolades, but at least the best of intentions, to make the country a better place. The French left thinks only of how it can stick it to their political enemies, and award themselves the most power and taxpayer-subsidized perks (sound familiar?--as in the people you just mentioned?). The French right (not to be confused with their far right--a VERY different animal) is less fanatical about sticking it to their enemies, maybe because they have more experience in power, and know from the start that no one will love them no matter what they do. The French left hasn't yet figured that out, and can't understand why it is that every time they look for a new group to harass, they just dig themselves deeper into a hole.

On the other hand, no one nation in Europe is facing such a well-financed onslaught from a radical rightist movement as we are. Nowhere in Europe does the extremist right have its own TV channel, its own network of hate radio, or well-funded "think-"tanks that exist to churn out propaganda for them, and to produce wordy papers saying nothing more than black is white and cancer is good for you.