Le Pen is an artifact of how democracy works here. The outcome was bad, but the process, I'm not ashamed of that, and the second round...what did Le Pen get?
No, that wasn't a mistake. Jospin would have been better than Chirac, but Chirac was better than what, for example, the Worker's Party in England was inflicting on Europe. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
The big mistake was his reelection - that's what Americans were making up for in 2008 when they elected Obama. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
I think even "heckuva job" Brownie is able to do that...
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
