OFFERING A HELPFUL SHOVE ONTO THE BARRICADES
"Trash France Then Vote For Us!"

There's no particular reason we have singled out the Parti Socialiste. It could have as easily been the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire. Or the Lutte Ouvrière. Or the Parti Communiste Français. Or Pôle de Renaissance Communiste en France. Or Parti des Travailleurs. Or Les Verts. Or the Parti Radical de Gauche. Or Mouvement Républicain et Citoyen. And there are still others. (There is no shortage of political parties in France.)

The Parti Socialiste was the biggest target to happen into view.

What all these parties have in common is that they support in varying degrees legislating from the street. Coincidentally, they are also all out of power.

Having failed to win at the ballot box, they now mobilize or encourage or applaud -- or all of these things -- mobbing to advance their political fortunes. Short on ideas and long on demagogy, they hide behind the worker, the chômeur, the immigrant, the student, children -- anyone they can push into the street to defeat the party in power that defeated them at the ballot box. Of course, if any one of these parties were ever to be voted into power legitimately, well, mes amis, then everything is by the book.

Pave does not endorse the Jack pack. Hardly. However, we are sticklers for the constitutional processions in law. The current French consitution consigns no extemporary legislative powers to French mobs. Mobs are free to influence or intimidate legislators. But not extort legislative outcomes.

Workers, watch your plush French fannies.

[Hat tip on the French: The indispensable Carine]

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