We have become with a rousseauian flavour

April 21, 2002, the French, after five years of "plural left", confide massively to the right. March 28, 2004: in one of these "sanction" votes which - they crave, the same French massively are management areas to the left. Again, election prognoses are disappointed: the elections are local, but the participation rate increases; the assent vote benefits not extremes.

Here comes the time for a new kind of cohabitation. It looks muscular. Already the Socialists, just returned from the happy surprise, arise as its legitimate to statutory authority. They announce that they will make the regions of the balances. Talking about "resistance". A meeting is planned between the Prime Minister and the twenty Presidents PS of metropolitan areas on the distribution of powers. It was announced that GMOs will be prohibited, that the EPR nuclear reactor project will be banned there, that it reserves the conditions of implementation of the RMA.

As to the reasons of the success or failure, policy, right to left, agree: it is the social issue. It is true that since nearly 30 years the France is sick of his unemployment. But rather that the combat is reforming, as was done successfully, it attaches here to reduce the effects, to reduce the consequences in a spiral, not to reduce the load, in increasing still more weight. The disease has become chronic. Its consequences are not only economic the country is weary of finance its social expenses, they are also ideological, moral, psychological.

The French dream over the France; they have more idea than themselves, their comfort, their survival, their consumption. They are more involved in ambition, they compete for a legacy of nostalgia, exception and (especially) vested benefits. The French, for the most part, believe that protection, security, guaranteed. Their desire is somehow folded, inward. French is afraid of the future, on the other, of globalization. It is France that is born and grow in environments that were thought progressive, a speech of the decay, frugality and the noble savage. We have become with a rousseauian flavour. We aspire to return to nature as the child regrets the belly of its mother. When talking about reform, it is not to transform, change, open, free, but to secure, consolidate, secure. Except that ultimately, the State, which almost everyone depends, is bankrupt, and the elites fled.

Policies, they appear to be mined, prevented, forbidden by a permanent and deaf concern: they behave as if they were afraid that the France would explode in their hands. Them whose task is to live, to flourish, grow and prosper, they fear the kicks and the ups and downs. The spectrum of the revolution has not left the imagination of French policies that seem to strive to prevent the deadline. Where perhaps this species of discomfort that mark practice policy, this forced deaf, this way of trying to constantly postpone the inevitable deadline. For two centuries, French political life was dominated by the idea was to fulfill the promise of 1789. With the bicentennial, we were told that the revolution was over. Policies have understood the need to keep it, best way to prevent the return.

The fact is it virtually no question of the France in political discourse. I am not the France yesterday, but of tomorrow. The France is as excluded, repressed, replaced by abstractions that one and the other is send to figure: liberalism, democracy, social justice, equality, solidarity. The political range on ideological, philosophical, academic debates that are not exactly within its jurisdiction. Some philosophers say that equality is that there are beautiful, others too much equality is not good. The political debate is not to decide the philosophical controversy, but to determine what form is the France that such form of equality (inequality) will be organized.

The truth is that the pent-up France expected to be released. Let us walk backwards and gargle us a graduate exception. In fact of revolution, returning us: look at the future and talk about the France.