What did we do with France?

  • In France, the president can say “Piss off, you dumbass” to one of his citizen and nothing happens. But when a citizen is yelling at the president cause he is unhappy, then he get sued and has to pay a fine. Apparently, the french revolution abolished the privileges but our new government brought them back.
  • In France, a member of the government can make very racist comments but  doesn’t have to resign his job and can keep on stigmatizing some minorities, cause after all, they are all criminals, aren’t they? You got to admire how good our politicians are in history as they are reproducing some 1940′s techniques when they are rounding up some immigrants and also in their way of talking about them… Ah! The Vichy government left us some very useful teaching!!!! Go France!
  • In France, you can be an other member of the government knee deep in some financial scandal, you also don’t resign, cause what is just a few millions of euros taken under the table, right? thank you the cosmetic industry who helped our poor politicians who need so much money.
  • In France, now, people will have to work until 62 (67 for most cases and especially for women) to get a decent (?) retirement salary, but our politicians (from any sides) who are still active are already enjoying some retirement money after their parliament or government mandate that they nicely mix with their new job salary…  Two sources of incomes plus all the perks that comes with the job, why didn’t I chose politics instead of litterature? Stupid me!
  • In France, more and more people feel free to be racist, anti-semitic, extremists, cause that is the only way they found to express their fears and disappointment in what their society is becoming and the only answer the government found to that, is to play with those fears in order to get more votes and to hide the financial and society crises we are facing nowadays. We don’t want to think anymore, we just want money and that s all. No more reflexion on what a democracy should be like and how to improve it. This is what an Historian called “the end of History” I guess and France is falling right in it.
  • In France, you can be French with all your papers (ID, passeport, proof that you are born in France) suddenly you also have to prove that your parents are French and born in France. If not, apparently, you are not French (even though you have had your French nationality during 2o years)  Again last time they were asking people to prove that their parents too were French, it was in the 40′s in order to check that you weren’t in fact a jew !!! (Watch the old movie “Mr Klein” with Alain Delon, it shows that)
  • In France, the food is good, the cities are beautiful and the culture is amazing…but what did we do with it?