French Politics

Misery loves company Genkis a friend an illustrator of French Honor Harrington books discussed French politics on Facebook. He noted the elections around the world this year were momentous, and that the public in France were disenchanted with their politicians. His answer so mirrors the feelings of many in the US I thought you might enjoy it. I asked if the elections were fair in France his answer:

//Not exaclty the same because our government dosen’t work exactly like yours. Not the same chambers, not the same rules BUT… yes. Here the situation is really serious…

We have bad news about corrupted politicians almost each day… Or each week. So there isn’t scandal anymore, we are accustomed to their bad actions in the political life… We can’t trust the election process because rules are created by politicians to serve the 2 big parties. That’s all.

BUT French people are really, really, really fed up with them. It takes different faces. Some people will vote for the extreme right (we could say facists and/or nationalists to simplify).
Others vote for the a kind of communism (not the one in USSR but let make it simple) or small parties like the green party, or whatever that could fit to your personal sensivity.

The reality is that, each time they promise, they swear… And each time they only serve their interests and those of theirs friends. They arrive on the top of the mountain and… they stop representating us or listenning to us.

The deception is sooooo strong that half of the citizen don’t vote. More or less. And this is the real “biggest” french political party. : abstentionism.

When you hear something like “François Hollande has been elected as the new French President by 51%”. That doesn’t mean that 51% of the French people voted for him.
It means that he was elected by 51% of the voters. So, maybe, 25% of the French population, max.

Today a French president doesn’t represent the country. He represents only himself and his clan…

These days, we have a social movment today called “nuit debout” (Night awake), it looks a little like “occupy wall street” but it’s not the same purpose. People stay on squares in big cities and they discuss about our society. It started with a new law about job regulation. We could say that it was a bad law but in the end, protesters changed. They are still against this new law but it’s a detail. Today they speak about what they really want, what kind of life, what kind of government, of politic.
The lack of communication with the majority of our politicians is soooo strong that French people starts to discuss together about “what will we do with/for our country? and how ?”.
It’s very interesting. And it shows that we don’t believe in the election process anymore. 85% of the politicians are members of kind of “caste”. We say : “We don’t want the war “A””, they declare war. “We want the war “B”” they don’t declare it.
We want them to fix the problem C ? They don’t mind and they create a new law about the problem “XYZ” which is a problem only for them…

Well, things are going to be very interesting in 2017…//

I posted on Taylor Anderson's author site got comments from a Russian, a Canadian, another American, and from another Frenchman see http://www.taylorandersonauthor.com/discussions/uncategorized/general-discussions/

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Interesting. We hear so much about the UK politics (probably because their news reports are in English and don't require translation) but much less in France. I knew there was some political unrest due to the French government's disastrous handling of Islamic radicals and their disastrous handling of the recession but I wasn't aware of how broad the spectrum of issues triggering the discontent was.