After the Yellow Vests, should we blind farmers?

2024-01-30 17:40:10

TRIBUNE – The Young Global Leaders (or YGL, label awarded by the big men of the World Economic Forum in Davos) who currently occupy key positions in France (President and Prime Minister) are in fact in an awkward position.

The very difficult situation of farmers is the result of the implementation of the rules of the treaties signed by the YGL and for the YGL. Treaties allowing the law of the strongest to come into play. The “law” is now the rule that benefits bankers, big industrialists and big traders. With an obligation for the institutions of States (whose bodies are still elected to – in theory – represent the people) to let this happen and to help.

On the one hand, the Young Global Leaders (YGL) must ensure that texts that are unfavorable for small and medium-sized farmers apply as intended. And, on the other hand, that they continue to endure appalling living conditions without flinching, while awaiting their disappearance. All, as has been said, in the logic of the texts and the societal ideology of their authors…

Our Young Global Leaders practiced as usual: they told the farmers that they understood their problems, and gave them some nice phrases (which, if followed through, would actually go against the grain). various treaties).

However, the farmers are not satisfied with the fine words of our YGL! And worse, they are speaking negatively about the rules contained in the treaties. Treaties which, some, precisely make it possible to put in place the government of bankers and financiers (with their henchmen put in place thanks to various manipulation techniques). Others make it possible to make juicy products by importing agricultural products not subject to French rules (labor law, health rules).

So what recourse do our YGLs now have? Logically, they still have to do what we usually do:

Divide the protesters. Which is easy, since the world of agriculture is heterogeneous (it includes industrialists and small producers); a divide that is sometimes found within the same union organization. The agreement between the “big guys” and with the YGL will put the little ones on the sidelines. It will be a matter of discrediting the latter if they persist.

Raise the population against the refractory (as with train users whose discontent traditionally fuels the desire to suppress the right to strike): market traders who will see their turnover drop if their workplaces are blocked, disappointed consumers or furious at not finding in stores what they usually buy there. Trust the television channels, which, it is well known, help people to think and know how to make us forget who is at the origin of the discontent, to interview them obligingly.

Using “legitimate” violence according to a well-known scenario: after people as mysterious as they are elusive (like the Black Blocs or the “Yellow Vests”) have committed some abuses, let go of the police and the gendarmerie in the name of maintaining order and the sacrosanct respect for republican order. Police and gendarmerie which, let us note, are much more effective in these tasks than in ensuring public tranquility where it no longer exists, and who will use means to dissuade people who are unhappy or who can no longer stand it from starting again. not to accept the fate that has been done to them and (the political class being committed to societal ideology and the rules of the treaties) to manifest it.

So are we going to kill a few farmers in the eyes of this?

To be continued…

Marcel-M. Monin is an honorary university lecturer.