With less than sixty days until the first round of the presidential election, the debates are not reaching great heights.
We dream of a France where major electoral events would inspire intense reflections on societal issues: economy, education, health, work, culture, security, etc.
However, on all these topics, new ideas are rare and even less realistic.
We only hear a few slogans, promises like “this will be my fight” here and that “the cause is just” there.
No spirit is emerging yet from the campaign’s cacophony.
Only a few litanies such as: “it was better before.”
But, in truth, one would like to know better: before who? before what? before when?
Then, if the statement implies “when we were among ourselves,” the answer is simple: the French have never been among themselves because France has been built between “one and another.”
In fact, it is quite concerning to note that the national narrative is becoming a large bag in which everyone chooses the events that say what they want. While we know well that a country’s history is made of a thousand stories, a thousand influences, a thousand upheavals, a thousand trajectories.
And the “false” heralds of the “Nation” should not replace “land” with “local area,” nor confuse “history” with “hysteria.”
by Garibaldino
