Democracy is not just about voting.
China, Turkey, even North Korea are organizing elections.
It is the exercise of fair, contradictory debate that distinguishes our free societies from authoritarian regimes.
At the start of this presidential campaign, everyone should be delighted that our minds are freeing themselves from the Covidian paradigm to finally find the confrontation of visions, concerns and hopes.
However, some are sorry and, like Edwy Plenel, envy the Germans, who campaigned barely mentioning the migration crisis and political Islam.
Strange idea to consider that the irruption of these themes would be the result of media inconsistency or a race to hear!
For having evacuated passions from the political field, the most brilliant minds, for fear of getting dirty in contact with popular sentiment, have been lost for years in reasoning so elaborate that they become blinding.
Accuracy rather than truth, spirit of geometry
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