Wow: Look At How France's Socialist Party Has Evaporated

After you run out of other people's money, the whole socialist thing gets so boring.

Several problems with the story and its american-centric glee

1. Europe is not tied to a four year cycle. So any defeat is not followed by four years of change. Next year, there could be another election. England is currently getting ready to have its second election within a year or two, right? European governments are always on a moments' notice. So while a populace may cotton to a politicians' stance *TODAY* - that is no guarantee they'll feel the same way next year. Case in point, Greece. When Greece was having her money problems only those with any financial ideas were listened to. After those people were elected, the people went right back to doing what they were doing prior to the crisis.

2. European parties are not tied to a senatorial/congressional infrastructure. You can - and do - make deals with people. All the time. Just because your *RIGHT* party "won" doesn't mean everyone in the government is "RIGHT" - on the contrary, the British government a handful of years ago was a coalition. Just because someone agrees with you, doesn't necessarily mean that they 100% agree with you. "Now Don, why would you do that?!" I don't know..."for the good of the country?" I know...alien concept in America... Smaller, weaker parties can and do, pool their resources to defeat larger parties. It would be like the Libertarians and Republicans joining parties to defeat the Democrats. It works because you don't have senators and congressfolk. We call it bi-partisanship. Europe has no name for it. As you are running to hopefully improve the country, it shouldn't be a surprise that others find your ideas great/good. In other words, a Democrat agreeing with a Republican shouldn't be the "sin" that it is here in the USA.

3. European Socialism never runs out of other people's money because everyone works. People don't stop working because a socialist got elected or defeated, etc. Not every flavor of socialism is nationalist. I know thats hard to grasp, but truth it is...