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François-Xavier Bellamy: “The fiction of the “at the same time” covers a generalized confusion”

2022-05-23T18:18:04.615Z


TRIBUNE – May the renunciation of certain LR elected officials of their convictions for positions not lead to a symmetrical renunciation among right-wing voters, pleads the LR MEP, also a normalien and associate professor of philosophy.


A strange atmosphere has taken hold of our political life.

At a time when the multiple crises we are going through should impose the greatest clarity in speech and action, on the contrary everything seems confused and inconsistent as ever.

The “old world” has been harshly judged, often with good reason;

but at least there was no question of whether a chosen one was suddenly going to support everything he had fought on the grounds of a passing opportunity.

Politics was not always moral, but there were some principles;

the thinking that animated the old parties often lacked depth, but at least some ideas were held on to.

The important figures in public debate were not interchangeable: they had their vision, their character,

From a presidential election, one could more or less deduce the coherence of the government that would come.

In the “new…

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Source: lefigaro

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