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Ivan Rioufol: "Leaving the politics of fear"

2020-05-28T18:29:22.936Z


CHRONICLE - The absolute urgency is to get out of this absurd policy of "fear for all": it paralyzes citizens and produces bans that disfigure democracy.


Fear: it has become the effective instrument of power. It is by making people tremble at the epidemic - which would falsely kill up to 500,000 dead in France if nothing was done - that the government has put the country under its wing, fearful and distrustful like a beaten dog. The alerts of the Scientific Council, the images of dying and coffins, the daily enumerations of deaths, are traumas that persist.

Was this macabre staging justified? It is reasonable to think that it was excessive. France is the country where containment lasted the longest. The infantilizing scare has made civil society less responsible. This strategy has led the State to assert itself in an easy authoritarianism. After having promoted the scarecrow of populism, then that of global warming, macronism is tempted by the generalization of fear in everything. But in doing so, it is the realities that are rejected.

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Source: lefigaro

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