[junaru]

> Then don't try to put discredit to the saying of an insider.

The GP in question is a generic ramble about distaste for current government. You can apply that for each and every country - there's not one where citizens are happy with their leaders. And if this flies for 'insider knowledge' in France you really are f**d and, its not because of the government.

[ElFitz]

> The GP in question is a generic ramble about distaste for current government.

For the last 4 presidents and their ~15 governments (20 years), both "left" and "right".

But I agree said rambling remains quite generic nonetheless.

[johnnyanmac]

>But I agree said rambling remains quite generic nonetheless.

That's what makes it sound like noise. If you took "france" out of the sentence I wouldn't be able to tell which country this is talking about. US, Canada, UK, China, Japan? It's like the fortune reading of government criticism.

[petre]

The current président de la République managed to trigger protests and strikes that are only rivaled by the '86/87 student riots. The yellow vest protest almost had the potential to turn into another May '68 style event. It almost always begins with police killing a French citizen of Algerian origin or by messing up with the fuel prices. Hollande was a total disaster and Sarkozy is a 2x convict by now, no need to say more.

[ElFitz]

That wasn’t my point and doesn’t change anything about GP’s own merits or lack thereof.

I was actually trying to show it does have some merit by pointing out that, despite being generic, said ramble targets all the governments we’ve had over the last 20 years, and thus shouldn’t be so easily dismissed.

The conclusion was me playing nice by finding some common ground with the person I was replying to.

That’s all.