Unsinkable middle classes.
Their disappearance, announced at regular intervals since Marx, who preferred to speak of the “
petty bourgeoisie
”, has continued to be denied.
Once again, for ten years, their fate has been worrying.
This time it is not an economic crisis that threatens them but a deep wave in the soul.
The middle classes would have lost all confidence in the “
republican and meritocratic promise
”.
All the political parties therefore rush to the bedside of these French people in the middle, without whom no election can be won.
On the steps of Matignon, on the day of his appointment, Gabriel Attal made a point of expressing his concern: “
Too many French people doubt our country, doubt themselves, doubt our future.
I am thinking in particular of the middle classes, the beating heart of our country, architects of the greatness and strength of our French nation.
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