[tokai]

This sounds like the normal mode for french politics. How many times has your government collapsed over the last 200 years? You're on the 5th republic or something right?

[gorjusborg]

Better to have governments collapse than allow society to collapse.

I can't claim to be an expert in French politics, but harmful government should not be allowed to be stable.

[ohgodplsno]

To be fair, a bunch of these happened because of wars, we didn't really control these ones.

The other bunch happened because they were precariously unstable governments.

[barrysteve]

Yep and compared to European history this is tame.