2023-07-02 19:00:05
France did the revolution in the streets and that’s how the Republic, when the discontent presses the French burst the public space. May 1968, the yellow vests… In no other country in the world is the principle of popular sovereignty: every discontent has its revolt. Now there is a new episode.
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After the pension reform just two months ago, politics returned to normal. Then it was a government law, but now the revolt does not respond directly to its policy but to the shortcomings of a society deeply divided between those who consider themselves citizens and those who are excluded. The French Republic has huge black holes, areas on the periphery of all its cities where you live in the abyss. They are ghettos where the worst schools, economic hardship, job insecurity and exclusion are concentrated. In many of these neighborhoods live the second and third generations descendants of immigrants who came from the colonies. The trigger for them to reveal themselves was the death of one of them, Nahel, 17, at a traffic control. Just last year police killed 22 people in a similar way. It seems difficult to understand, but in these neighborhoods the gendarmes are afraid, as are those who have to stop at their checkpoints. The fear that blacks have of the police in the US is feared by Muslims of the French gendarmes.
The revolt appeals to historical exclusion. There are no leaders with whom to attempt a negotiation, and Emmanuel Macron He also has the problem that he lives between radical extremes, who need to take advantage of this revolt. Effects of the Polarization. If the extreme left accuses him of not ending poverty, the radical right urges him to impose law and order, limiting the entry of migrants, despite the fact that Nahel was a citizen born in France. But the confusion is valid because as long as the violence lasts, the xenophobic discourse of the extreme right of Marine Le Pen gana.
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