It is a mysterious evil, a strange epidemic. It is gripping the debate on pension reform as the amendments spread. Symptoms? Systematic opposition, voluntary obstruction, assumed rotting. Soon a deep tiredness seizes the deputies, the journalists and some valiant French who are bent on following this simulacrum of debate. It's childish: twenty deputies to the left of the left build their barricade of paper in the hope that the government, forced to use 49-3, tramples on it. The revolutionary emphasis will then flourish which transforms an article of law into a “constitutional LBD” , an instrument used by Michel Rocard into a “parliamentary disenchantment grenade”. So goes La rebellious France: she dresses her little grandiose activism. The capital words - Liberty, Dictatorship, Repression - no longer have any meaning. The Melenchonian troops dream of being the heir to the Constituent Assembly, but Danton is a fool, and
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