The watchword that is starting to impose itself in the French public debate, stimulated by the last two speeches of the President of the Republic, is clear: haro on globalization, the market and private initiative, and long live the regulations, relocation, even renationalization! In doing so, we French people plunge back into our national double habitus : the preference for big words and beautiful theories rather than for practical considerations and on the other hand the adoration of "the State-guarantor-of-l 'general interest', source of all truth, of all legitimate action and, henceforth, of all income. Didn't the head of this state guarantee it from one speech to the next, whose messages take up one line: "Costs what it costs, the state will pay"?
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In these times of acute crisis - sorry, of "war" - any critical statement is obviously as difficult to formulate as to hear, because very unwelcome: is it not time for "mobilization", to "sacred union" at the end
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