Will the great fears get the better of liberal democracies?
An epidemic has put collective deliberation to sleep and reduced two important elections - municipal and regional - to our electoral calendar to a strict minimum;
the Russian bombs that fall on the Ukraine take away the presidential campaign in their breath.
The single point of fixation distorts politics, which is no longer the search for the good life but the instrument of survival.
Surviving Covid, surviving Putin, but also, depending on the color of your concern, surviving global warming, surviving the demographic shift caused by mass immigration.
All these fears are legitimate, but, each time, it is fear that commands, as if we had fallen into a regime of “anxiocracy”.
The candidates like to disqualify their adversaries (generally from the right) by emphasizing that they are “playing on fears”, but, in truth, everyone plays this partition of anguish.
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