Umpteenth misunderstanding with deep France

Some magnifying effects are intended, others are fortuitous. In any case, they are severe. When breathlessness threatens, in the middle of school holidays, the unions decide to emphasize one of the particularities of the conflict against pension reform . They parade in Albi, in this France of medium-sized cities which has known record mobilizations since the beginning. BFMTV cameras follow. Deconcentrated emissions. Visually, it’s striking. That Paris, and therefore power, suddenly seems far away!

At the same time, the Assembly sinks into games of postures that no one understands. Obstruction Nudes RN censorship motion, game of cat and mouse between Renaissance and LR : how far from the real country this power, yet supposed to represent the territories, seems! Two symmetrical movements, one down, one up, which lead to the same word: disconnection.

From January 19, the first day of action, the executive notes the phenomenon and measures the risk. Medium-sized cities talk and talk loudly, especially in the west of the country. Morlaix, Guéret, Béziers, Brest, Quimper, Angoulême, Périgueux… display astonishing ratios of demonstrators in view of the number of inhabitants.

How to move?

Deep France says its feeling of abandonment and it is not the first time. During the “yellow vests”, during the Covid on the masks, each time the same misunderstanding which is expressed between the remote territories and the macronist power. How to answer it?

Or rather what to add to what has already been done? The great post-“yellow vests” debate, Action Coeur de Ville funding, civil servants in decentralized administrations, France service houses, the Marseille operation on a large scale, mayors who have become ministers (Olivier Klein, Christophe Béchu, Olivier Becht …), local CNRs (National Council for Refoundation) to reform schools and health, a long discount at the pump to help motorists…

Lots of things, actually, that obviously didn’t hit their mark. In the difficult equation of after-retreats , so the subject returns to the top of the stack. A new time. No response for now. Moment of disarray among the ministers. Especially since they know that for some time, “it will be complicated to move on the ground”, anticipates an adviser. March 7, day of “France at a standstill” and probably later.