Sunday, 12 February 2017

FRENCH ELECTIONS - WHO WILL THE POLITICIANS AND ELECTORATE BLAME? PART 1.





And so, as the people of the French Republic, that great bastion of 'liberte', equalite' and fraternite' make themselves ready for their pending presidential elections; what are the predominant issues which they will use to decide the fate of France for the next 5 years? 

Will it, as has been the case of with Britain's Brexit referendum, and the USA's presidential election, the inflation of the immigrant/migrant 'threat' from abroad? 

Or will it be the perceived need for the deconstruction of the European Union? Or probably the 'threat' of globalisation? Or the 'threat' of the 'Islamisation' of Europe? 

Or probably a combination of these and other 'threats', both real and manufactured? 



Whatever are the issues, we can expect that the politicians will play with and use them to manipulate the people of France.

Religion is the opium of the people, said the old adage, however, for the non-Islamic world, religion is arguably no longer its opium. That is left to the Islamic world and the orthodoxy of the vestiges of Christendom. 

So, what has, for the non-Islamic world, taken the place of religion? Is it politics, and, if so, what kind of politics? Are we, the people, as it were, now consumed with politics, and have probably become the 'opium' of the political ruling classes? 



Do they, the political ruling classes, become 'high on us', promising this and that and then failing to deliver on or make good their promises, after achieving their 'highs' which is to get power? 

Which, the humanists amongst us, could argue, is the same fundamental weakness of religion; that of the religious ruling classes promising the faithful 'milk and honey', but in another and most probably, unattainable life. 

Promises which are forever being made, but knowingly or unknowingly, cannot be kept?



In May 2012, Francois Hollande became the 24th President of the French Republic, after having won the run off with his Conservative opponent, Nicolas Sarkozy. 

Hollande was supposed to be the President of all of France, but a Socialist one.  Although, judging by the policies he set about implementing or continuing, both nationally and internationally, you could be forgiven for thinking that, whatever difference there was and is between him and Sarkozy, was no more than the few inches in height he has over Sarkozy.

To be continued.





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