Probing "the soul of peoples", the title of one of his books, the historian André Siegfried pointed out in 1950 the
"destructive character"
of the French,
"more at ease in opposition than in cooperation"
.
For seventy years, there have been countless episodes that have proven him right.
The current tussle over pensions adds to this.
Even modest, in the land of dissensus, this reform was enough to turn society upside down.
As evidenced by the meeting this Wednesday between the Prime Minister and the unions, dialogue is impossible, disagreement, most often the rule.
The fault lies, of course, with the government, which is
“obtuse and radicalized”
, according to the new boss of the CGT,
"responsible for a serious democratic crisis"
, for Laurent Berger.
But from the top of what representativeness do these unions speak to maintain such an insurrectionary climate?
These abuses of language and other anathemas, which reflect a detestation of the power in place, are in tune with…
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