Not much, it’s mostly due to the fact that in the last 8 years, Macron has wrecked tax revenue. Basically, we are spending as much money as we always have, roughly 50% of our GDP, but the revenue has plummeted.

Most of the money has gone straight into the pockets of a handful of people, and these people are now massively funding fascist propaganda to prevent being taxed and paying their fair share.

It’s a really easy problem to solve, framed as a conundrum, and fear-mongered to death.

And lobbying hard to keep regulations out of their way

Not wishing death to anyone, but reading some obituaries with great pleasure

A lot worse, Jesus can’t be weaponized. Oh, wait…

The Vth Republic is done, it was not great when it was introduced, and then it got twisted and corrupt. It’s extremely vulnerable to bad faith actors and one president (let’s say a far right one, for instance) would send us into an authoritarian dictatorial nightmare in no time. All the previous administrations paved the way for this to happen smoothly and it might actually happen in 2027.

We really need to move on, and get a new constitution as soon as humanely possible.