Raymond Aron recommended putting oneself in the place of the decision maker before passing judgment on a political choice.
With a question: “
What would I have done in such a situation?
Immediately, a web of constraints and pressures blunts the first impulse.
The citizen who engages in this exercise measures then that it is not at all obvious to be a minister.
One could add to the precepts of Aron the tyrannies of the moment and of transparency, which too often transform the public man into a target of digital mobs or leagues of virtue.
However, we have to face the facts, and our survey bears witness to this, it is no longer even a question of disenchantment or resentment of public opinion vis-à-vis those who govern us, but of a very great indifference .
As if politics as a spectacle had ended up getting tired and no one seemed to seriously believe in the concrete influence of a government on the course of things.
Politics as a show ended up getting tired
This is the direct consequence of a double…
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