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On 05/12/2024 14:46, john larkin wrote:
> https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/europe/france-political-mire-macron-kicking-himself-analysis-intl/index.html
> 
> Parlimentary systems seem chaotic to me. In the USA, we schedule such
> trauma to happen every four years. In europe, the chaos is high rate
> random time sampled.

We have multiple actual opposition parties in Europe covering the entire 
political spectrum. Sometimes they even get a turn in government.

At least one typically provides the piggy in the middle balancing act 
and can form a coalition with either of the main parties to make a 
viable government. They do sometimes get shafted as a result.

What happened in France was that the ultra right and the ultra left 
ganged up to take out the unpopular centrist Prime Minister who was 
basically just trying to balance the books with a budget.

Politicians over estimate their own importance. Belgium survived OK for 
over 650 days without a government - breaking their own previous world 
record!

https://caw.ceu.edu/other-activities/academic-blog/politics/how-did-belgium-manage-to-survive-without-having-agovernment

TBH I'm more worried about Korea declaring martial law. That could 
invite very big trouble and there are plenty of US bases there.

> I guess there worse things than having no government. No running water
> or no beer maybe.

Lack of running water is inconvenient, lack of potable water is much 
more serious. You die of dehydration a lot faster (days) than starvation 
(weeks).

Beer has the big advantage that in dodgy third world regions it is 
usually safe to drink even when the water isn't.

-- 
Martin Brown