tes réformes,
tes réformes...
Conseil adressé aux millions (à la libanaise) qui ont arpenté les rues de toutes les villes de France aujourd'hui (tout comme mardi dernier, mardi d'avant, quelques mois auparavant...):
Voici un mode d'emploi amical, abusez-en, ça peut vous éviter des douleurs aux pieds (ça c'est trash!):
1. La prochaine fois qu'on vous appelle à voter (pour un président ou pour un député…), évitez de programmer un voyage pour le même weekend. Ça ne se fait pas !
2. Choisir de deux maux le moindre, ça fait moins mal (logique).
3. Attention aux vices cachés, aux vices de forme, au vice président et surtout à son frère...
4. Le yoyo est un jeu très dangereux.
Et surtout :
5. Réfléchissez aux conséquences de vos actes et assumez les! (j’allais dire merde !)
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I don't get your point. Not everybody voted for the right-wing government. And besides, let's say they did. Does that mean they don't have the right to protest? It's not their fault if the socialists and the right-wingers are not that different from each other.
I really respect these protests. They show that some resistance in the social fabric is still there; there is a will to say no. The Non, the riots in the suburbs, and now this... These are signs of life. It's rare these days. There's no way in hell we'll such such protests in the United States for example.
Ok i may have overreacted.
i'm not crticizing these protests, i even participated in some of them. what i criticize is this series of unfortunate events :
1- in April-May 2002 : Le Pen got to the second round of presidential elections, everybody said the very low turnout to the first round is one of the reasons.
1bis- June 2002- legislative elections (only one month later), you get the lowest turnout among the last three legislative elections. the right wing got the majority of votes so i suppose the people would like right wing policies...
2- ...Well not really, a year later, two typicaly right wing laws (ferry and fillon) were proposed and what is happening now happened then.
3- regional elections in 2004: 20 of the 22 french regions are held by the left wing.
etc...
Now some figures say that about 60% would like the CPE to be withdrawn. Why would you vote right if you don't want right wing policies (or was it because you were on vacation the day of the elections?). This is what i criticize: students complaining because their university is occupied although the decision to occupy the university was taken in general assembly...
back to the CPE: this part of the law (among others) is shit, and Villepin using the 49-3 to pass it made it worse. I'm all the way with the protests the strikes and all.
oh yeah, and i have a very bad souvenir of April 21st 2002 when i saw Le Pen's face instead of Jospin. Now i hope 2007 won't be the same.
Well Le Pen making it to the second round cannot be only explained using the very low turnout. I was in Lebanon at the time, and I heard a lot of talk shows on French cable TV, and I felt that they were dodging the bullet. This points to a deeper crisis in French politics. It means that a large section of people are deeply dissatisfied with the institutional parties (the parties that traditionally hold power) i.e. the Socialist party and the coalition of right-center parties. There was a feeling that they're not so different, that they offer the same things with just some modifications. This is a problem in may western countries, due to the fact that the distinction between left and right is growing slimmer and slimmer since the early nineties. Now, when the traditional social structures do not fulfill their function, something has to fill the void. Listening to some crazy racist like Le Pen becomes easier. He's more convincing, because he is saying that things are not working, and many people would agree with him. We saw the same effect on the left, where the far-left parties also got much more votes than what they usually get. People go to the extremes when the center is not working anymore.
Now, for the parliamentary elections, I don't know. How do we know that the people who voted for the Right are the same ones demonstrating? Maybe they voted for someone else, maybe they didn't vote at all, maybe they were too young to vote.
I tell you what I think. It is true that there are millions in the street now, and gods bless them. But there are millions of older, more conservative people sitting watching television in their living room, looking at these young people demonstrating, and they feel disgusted. They feel insecure. They don't like this instability. All those “voyous” making all this noise. And who are grandpa and grandma voting for? That's right. Nicholas sarkozy. I am afraid all this will just lead to him getting elected.
Yep, there was all the security based campaign on TF1 for about a year before the election. You had everyweek a report from the Cités, where you could see that those suburbs are only source of problems. This was for a lot in the 2002 results.
And as you said, now TF1 will have their job already done (thanx to the Novembre riots).
I know you saw quite right about Sarko i hope we'll both be wrong, but hey, why am i complaining, it will make me go back sooner to lebanon ;) (ok that's not that true, however...)
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