France had a crazy election, where Macron made deals with a ton of reg ... to have them strategically drop out at the right time so that a minority candidate (NPF, a group of leftist candidates) could win (not really representing a fair vote of what the people wanted). His policies are not what democracy in France wanted (they wanted instead reforms on immigration, one version of retirement benefits, tax, workweek hours, etc), but through this manipulation of the political system France ended up with this result.
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India also lost magority (due to unpopularity of Modi's more recent ideas/policies.
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There is a pent-up demand for reform in politics and policies, for everyone. It feels to people corrupt, rigged, that the system doesn't work, and it's resistent to reform. In the past socialism has won (after WWI). Looking for a nationalist populist solution (in France the nationalist populist candidate (LePen) did win, but the system's desire to hand leadership to the NLP won. Conspiracy.
US unemployment is at a 50-year low, wages are beating inflation (so far, but could also be driving inflation), inflation down from 9% to 3% (although pushed up to 9% which is not a popular policy), stock market at high (although possible bubble with AI, forstalled recession expected in 2019, forstalled because of policy of mass-printing money, lack of new products), no Americans currently in hot war). Jcal pointed these out for Democrats' case. Parenthesis mine.
Did the complicity just want to get Biden across the line, then have him or Harris, either way easy to puppet?