The die is cast.
Silence is imposed for a few hours on the great political media machinery.
The candidates are invisible, the polls which rolled constantly morning, noon and evening are at a standstill, the commentators have nothing more to comment on, the preachers, finally, are silent: France holds its breath.
On Sunday, a whole country will find itself in a ritual as old as Greece to decide its future.
The knowledgeable, the powerful will not be worth more than the little ones and the rankless: it is the hour of the people.
The people?
Not a sociological category, but all the citizens of a State.
Voting, a fragile and decisive expression of freedom
We will be told that this ballot has already been swept away by an indistinguishable campaign, that there has been no civic deliberation, fruitful confrontation, substantive debate.
We will complain about the overwhelming power of the image on the life of the mind, the weight of media emotions on reason, the triumph of the epidermis on the depths of consciousness, the ravages of ignorance on...
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