“It is up to political leaders not to validate theses which weaken democracy”

2023-06-29 08:30:01

There is an undertone in the public debate that hovers like a dark shadow over his psyche: the decisions and positions of the presidential majority – particularly those of the president himself – are not the subject of criticism in themselves. , but on the basis of a hidden foundation. This elsewhere is akin to a new conspiracy that never says its name.

Why does Emmanuel Macron persist in reforming our pension system despite opinion polls? Why does the presidential majority defend the reform of the taxation of heritage that it is much easier to slay at first sight? Why continue to defend the European treaties when it is so easy not to talk about Europe? Why appear in China with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and finance the defense of Ukraine at the risk of being accused of being “the little telegrapher of NATO and the EU”as Marine Le Pen claims?

The answer is, basically, always the same, although it wears different trappings: to give gifts to the powerful or to quench the thirst for “crazy dough” large companies – if possible oil companies and multinationals. In short, Macron’s reforming momentum would find its source in a remake of the odious myth of “two hundred families”to which the deputy Hadrien Clouet (LFI) of Haute-Garonne referred to during the budget debates in the National Assembly, in October 2022.

Of course, one can oppose in good faith the postponement of the legal retirement age or the abolition of the solidarity tax on wealth by opposing it with rational arguments. But such is not the case for those who cast doubt on the very intentionality of public decision-makers, who are legitimized by universal suffrage. And it is precisely so that we can continue to oppose a political decision in good faith that we must relentlessly denounce these fantasies of which President Macron is a particular victim because of his youth and his political successes. , economic and social. Opposing the majority does not make you a conspirator, but instilling ad hominem doubt about your hidden intentions makes you an accomplice.

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After all, if Emmanuel Macron is governing “against the people”, as his opponents claim, in favor of whom is he governing? “Powerful”, “globalists”? Of “those who have an interest in it”?

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