Saturday, May 6, 2017

France

The French Presidential system winnows the final candidates down to two. It must be something like the system here in California, where the top two candidates in an open congressional primary end up as the two finalists, regardless of party. 

In the California system you can sometimes end up with a tough choice between two candidates you don't like. For many French citizens that's what is happening today. But I keep in mind the slogan that influenced a French election some years back. "Vote for the crook, not for the Fascist." The crook won 80% of the vote.  

If our Presidential election system winnowed candidates down to just two, we would not have a malignant narcissist running the Western world today. 

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