What drives a citizen to go to the polls?
His civic sense no doubt, his political hopes of course, but when disappointments follow one another it takes even more to fill the voting booths.
Tocquevillian spirits easily appeal to reason.
It measures the imperfection of all things, accepts the share of disenchantment consubstantial with democratic exercise, recommends modest ambitions and temperate choices.
It is the voters who vote in each election and who are caricatured by the camp opposite as supporters of the suffrage censitaire.
The children of Brumaire claim rather the passions.
They combine fervor and adventure, the strength of emotion and the spirit of audacity.
They animate the forces of the popular vote, described by the “reasonable” as a “populist” vote.
This tension explains the ambiguity which, in this election, surrounds the question of purchasing power.
Constitutive element of everyone's existence, pivot of partisan disputes...
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