French Presidential Election, part IV

Tonight I’ll just plainly expose my views about this.

Sunday we’re going to vote. All the polls give Sarkozy as the winner, so it looks like it’s going to be him. I can think of several ways to look at it:

1. great, huge shame, utter stupidity, control over the masses through daydream-tv. Worst is when you know sarko and his mob have been gathering votes amongst the poor (………) when in fact these guys are very right winged, very conservative, very concerned about the very, I mean, very rich & the lobbyists; Neuilly = golden boys, period. Manipulation: riots back in october/nov. 2005 in Paris suburbs (and everybody abroad going, “Oh, what’s going on in France?!?” me having to answer, “Doesn’t surprise me at all, this has been growing for the past 25 years”). Question is, why? What happened? Let’s break it down again. 2 youngsters get killed on a saturday night in a power plant in the suburbs, hiding in there, thinking they were being pursued by the police. Sarkozy, then minister of interior, (wanting more and more arrests, always targeting the same – colored – suburb youngsters) announces in public ‘Let’s get rid of that scum’ – few days prior, he’d said ‘Let’s clean the suburbs with a Kärcher’ (pressure cleaning systems). Revolt. Burn suburbs, burn. Of course, what do you expect. I mean, this ‘clean the scum with Kärcher’ is a far-right skinhead talk! I happened to be in France back then, and hadn’t been following much of french politics. So talking with friends living there, I just mentioned, ‘This doesn’t make sense… as a minister, your duty is to create the conditions of peace, not those of unrest…’ then I thought, and said, ‘…unless…’ my friends answered, looking me right in the eye, the same ‘…unless.’ We understood each other behind the words. Unless you want it and need it, of course, to fuel your personal political agenda. Cynical, yes. Very-right very-conservative politicians are cynical, irresponsible, hypocrit, careless, nasty people. Almost a month of riots (and the people go, ‘Oh my, what are they going to do about it…?’, to which ‘they’ are all but too happy to bring ‘you’ the solution; the Kärcher!!!) How strange, march 27th, 2007, riots in one of Paris’ main train stations, Gare du Nord. That started off as a simple ticket check. The guy is illegally living in France, gets scared, headbutts an agent. Policemen, before you know it, hundreds of them. Panic, so-called riots. All on the the evening news of course, and not just once. Show the scariest shots, the most spectacular, the most shocking. It actually seems that when the police were running around, most of the civilians present were just watching, I mean, everyday life. So why broadcast it as the first news on the evening shows? You get my point, which isn’t just mine, many see this and know this. Manipulation through media; such a huge power with no counter power (yet… even though I personally believe in the net partly for this – but most of all, I think that first people should learn how to decrypt what is being shown to them; everybody should get a one day workshop in video editing; hey that’s an idea for reconversion for me; to understand that you can make believe almost just anything you want). Yes. Because information is power. Definitely. Or rather, control over the sources and flows of information is. Clearly. Hence the midget utilizes his networks and shocking images to conquer the meek, words to create unrest, a need for ‘an answer’, the harder the better. Anyway. To conclude this point, first way to look at it: if he wins France will enter an totalitarian era similar in many ways to that one of the late 30’s-40’s, when the government was collaborating with the nazis (and the police helping them send jews to the camps).
2. this brings us naturally to the theme of a resistance. Just like back then. Led by Bayrou, the new-to-come Democratic Movement (now official name) should become the pole around which all defenders of freedom and democracy will unite against Sarkozyescu (NB: as I’m writing this, there’s a historical program on tv showing pictures of the Reichstag fire, in Berlin in 1933, which was at the time assigned to the communists, and the communist party, banned, and Hitler happily turned Weimar’s Republic into the fourth Reich. For more details, see on Wikipedia). I know I’m making this dramatic or so it seems, and yes, it is dramatic. It’s a crucial election. So I was saying, Bayrou would naturally lead the political resistance movement, whose aim is in fact to push France forward into the 21st century. Bayrou is some kind of Blair (Tony, yes). He and Ségo and a few others would be on the frontline of ‘democracy back!’ or something. It’s only once you’ve been closely following what’s been going on that you understand how dangerous Sarko is for democracy. A mix of Bush and Berlusconi; except I believe he could go even further. In what way? Into controlling the press & media, and the senate and parliament, as to make sure there is no counter power.
3. It’s not that dramatic. Many will have a big panic attack sunday evening, if the midget is elected. But then I remember; after all, Berlusconi didn’t stay in office that long. The Vichy regime in France, led by Pétain, during WWII, only lasted as long as the nazis had the advantage. It’s all but cycles. History simply repeating itself.
4. I believe in Ségolène Royal’s victory on sunday. I always have and still do. And not just because I want to believe in it. And anyway it’s once we stop believing things are possible that they stop being possible.
5. Strange analogy with Star Wars. I mean it! Not ‘too much imagination’!! Watch the last episode, Revenge of the Sith; how well is described a democracy falling into a totalitarian empire, and all, under applause.
6. As I was preparing tea earlier on, I was thinking that I couldn’t believe I’d write like this about France one day. But that’s really how it feels. They’ll vote for him and then really regret it one day. When things have gone really wrong. Things will get back to healthy. I know; it’ll just take time and for some the need to realise. After that, it’s plain easy. A new liberation, and people thinking, ‘never again’. The shame is, until then, many will nedlessly suffer. Yet it’s not that simple. At all. And I know, I know, I don’t live there anymore, since long, so why should I care. True. Why should I care about Tibet, or the US under Bushism, or global warming, or anything. Of course I care. Sunday I’m voting, here, for her. And keep my cool, whatever happens. And then go into politics, European Democratic Movement; what else?

Truth is, I am worried. About where France might go. Even been having nightmares about it! Fuck it, where has good common sense gone for Christ’s sake? How come people can’t see through this huge masquerade?!? How come?!? Sting was bloody right, ‘History will teach us… nothing’. Still the same old shit, under different forms, since Cesar and Nero.