Electoral issues

Extra well-framed and underlined. Excellent spotting of colour. I am familiar with the European habit of "flagging" their political stances, especially in Spain.

Thanks for the comment. The carelessly unfurled flag (on a public building), the distortions, the "wood for the trees", struck me me as rather representative of what is going on at this time. I write as polling booths are opening. Everyboy is awaiting 20h00. 2017 is going to be a very "interesting" year. I read once (but have not been able to confirm) that Chinese well-wishers say (among how much else): "May you live in uninteresting times!"
Totally irrelevant here, but a particularly delightful (and doubtlessly apocryphal) saying: "Do not bend down to tie up your shoe-laces in your neighbour's melon patch!"

The whole civilized world is holding its breath, it seems. I don't know who coined the word, but "cluster-f---k" comes to mind.

Photos of the election well worth looking at can be found in today's NY Times. Photo journalism at its best. Thx for your elaborations of your thinking in "Electoral". Keep going in the direction you're going, my man.

Thank you for the remarks.
It's done.
The worst = Avoided !
The best = Achieved ?
The winner is bright, very bright, but (always) right…?
And now, the country waits (in uncertainty & indecision)…
One of the best remarks I have ever come across (and attributed to…?):
"Le français adorent une révolution, mais détestent le changement."
And Voltaire had his word to say: "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!"
But the world moves on, and the 21st century is not the 20th, or the 19th…
Or are things really so different?
There are deep historical constants, the oldest and strongest being: Government of the people by the rich, for the rich!
Where "Rich" can be replaced by "religious".
But not all combinations are valid.
The word "people" may/must be used only once, and only in the first position.
The word "rich" may be used three times.
Let the mind wander.

"The more things change, the more it is a mime show" was my now-departed friend the mime Wayne Constantineau's take on the Voltaire quote.

Too bad Macron's charisma quotient is so abysmal. I fear neither his colleagues in the government nor Joe Citizen will be inspired to give him the backing he now lacks utterly. We shall see. As for the people/the rich, I feel the stupid and the impulsive will become increasingly a factor in determining the course of history, including France's history.

Give the man a chance with his new broom.
The country needs one, and he can be no worse than those who have been around in recent years.
He certainly is not stupid, even if he does lean rather strongly towards economic liberalism and deregulation…
Our great danger today is selfish and socially destructive denial of government.
If only humans could really get down to thinking about and striving for Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité…
European constitutional monarchies (when not over-tainted by the one-way economic interests of groups) do not generally look all that bad…
This is all really far from photography, but…