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The systems in the United States, Russia, China and most of the world serve an idle undeserving elite at the expense of the people who do the work.
So, there’s already handwringing in the media about the “far left” leader who heads up the most successful party in France’s recent election. The surprise and jubilation at the defeat of the right wing fascists is already forgotten.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is denounced for his “redistributionist, egalitarian, hostile-to-capitalism economic vision” — because we all know that France has never been about egalitarianism. ;-)
We also hear that UK’s new Labor government (which is very mildly liberal, if at all) may have trouble governing despite its huge drubbing of the Tories.
There’s a bit of truth to these characterizations. Governments that seek to take care of people, and not simply serve the elites, will find a great deal of resistance from the politicians and media owned by those elites.
