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by adflux 1721 days ago
What's the equalizer? Revolution?
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The Great Leverer is indeed historically only achieved by violent means.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...

In all honesty, that's the suitor they are toying with, isn't it? As long as they can squeeze some more profit out of the common people, there's no reason not to do it. (Just see how Amazon treats it's workers.) It's only when people are on the barricades that they will relent.
No, justice. What currently happenes to Szarkozy. Of course, all of this happens in a country that guilotined their king and his wife, so the revolution helped a bit in that regard.
I really really wouldn’t take France as an example of how to deal with corrupt politicians. There’s an astounding complacency around corruption here, a politician in the US or UK wouldn’t have been able to get away with 1% of what Chirac or Juppé or Sarkozy got up to in the 80s-90s
Probably, but at least Szarkozy is a positive example up until now. I hope he does some time for what he did.