2023-09-26 12:48:44
He Ho ! Do you also have the vague impression of watching a Gulli program as soon as you turn on BFM? The most connected economist in France enlightens us on the question.
Our tan has barely started to fade when we are already preparing for the new 2027-2032 season of reality TV The President. From the end of August, the Minister of the Interior tried to unite his troops in what looked like a pre-campaign meeting; the Minister of Education made the front page of the JDD by showing that he was capable of hitting hard, the Minister of the Economy, in a full page in Le Monde, exposed his technical capacity on all the issues of the moment inflation to climate, and the former Prime Minister tries to explain to us in a book where his ideas and values come from.
We are in 2023, a year after the presidential election, and everyone is already thinking – obviously not just by shaving – about the presidential election of 2027. The horse race is on. It must be said that to exist, all these ministers who have been in the same government since 2017, who supported and voted for the same reforms, who campaigned for Emmanuel Macron in 2022, will have to have the imagination to play their own part. . At the same time, politics has become a beauty contest where we throw little digs at each other to feed the buzz machine without talking about substance. What will these pretenders to the throne choose? To follow in the footsteps of President Macron (Gabriel Attal and Bruno le Maire, it seems to me, have this profile) or to move away from him (Gérald Darmanin and Édouard Philippe are among them)? In any case, the new season of the telenovela El Presidente has already started and we are entitled to wonder if the ministerial function is at the service of the French or the ambition of the person who carries it out. But, let’s be Machiavellian, what’s the point of being a minister if it’s not to then move up in rank…
HARD AND LOYAL SERVICE
From now on, being in politics means securing a career rather than defending ideas. At the beginning, you must first succeed in major studies, at least Sciences Po Paris and for the best the ENA. Then, you must try to enter a ministerial office as an advisor and take your Party card. Then, after a few months of hard and loyal service, you have to find a winnable race to be elected deputy. At this moment, for many, it is the discovery of deep France and its inhabitants. Fortunately, they will only stay there two or three weeks before the election and one day a week thereafter. After which, you have to do everything to be a minister. We have many examples, on the left as well as on the right, of individuals who forgot their convictions (did they ever have any?) to obtain a morocco. The list is long of people (much too long to fit in this issue, so we will spare them by not mentioning them) who have criticized presidents, policies implemented by these presidents, until we offers a post of Minister so that she can apply the said policies that they once criticized. The important thing is not the ideas and fights that we defend (as we might believe) but the position that we obtain. The end justifies the means. You have to climb the ladder as you would in a CAC 40 company. Cabinet, deputy, minister and, then, why not, President of the Republic? Major studies for good positions, lobbying without obtaining positions for activists.
CAPTIVE POLICY
We all know the famous phrase of former minister Chevènement “A minister resigns or shuts up”. The problem is that today, few ministers disagree with the bottom line – it interests no one anyway. So, they have no reason to resign. But, on the other hand, they always open their mouths to say nothing really interesting. We are therefore constantly in the small talk, the useless debate, the vain controversy, the buzz on social networks which will end up spreading in the media and so on. Politics has become a circus, but this circus is still possible because people – fewer and fewer – are still interested in it. Politics captivates like episodes of a reality TV game, or a horse race or even a Miss France competition. There are no longer any real debates of ideas. Besides, who still reads the programs besides me?
By Thomas Porcher
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