By Patrick Pike
Are ni-ni neu-neu?
Are ni-ni neu-neu? It’s not insulting them, it’s asking questions in a familiar way to find out if they are simpletons or foolishes.
Because finally, French-style democracy, during the presidential election, takes place in two stages. The first time allows us to choose from among the candidates the one we prefer. In the second step, and since there are only two applicants left, and not necessarily the one we chose, it is simply a matter of eliminating the one we judge unfit to govern.
That being said, I perfectly understand the disappointment of those who see their favorite candidate failed. But that’s no reason to react like a child deprived of dessert and sulk in the corner.
In France, the right to vote, that is to say the right to express one’s point of view, was not obtained without difficulty. Some dates mark the stages of this power that the people obtained in 1789, where only citizens with a certain wealth (who paid tax, the census, or were very rich) voted for a so-called census vote; it was in 1792 that universal male suffrage was established, then many vagaries later the various empires, monarchies and republics in power transformed, suppressed, restored, modified this right to vote according to their electoral whims. Women only obtained this right in 1944, followed by career soldiers a year later. And it was in 1962 that direct universal suffrage was established for the election that concerns us today.
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As for the age at which one became a voter, it was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1974. Which leads our current Sorbonnes to believe that they are hooded revolutionaries to harangue their fellow students and convince them by spouting quibbles to refuse to vote. . This is a big reactionary and totally stupid step backwards. And they think they are left-wing! They are only unconscious.
Because finally, it is not a question, the minority that they are, students but not only them, also a few disappointed, vengeful, upset, annoyed voters, it is therefore not a question of wanting to impose one’s way of governing as it would seem that they demand it, but to recognize and accept with good grace the majority will. Unless we believe that we have the truth, which would imply that all the losers do the same, that is to say act like Pontius Pilate washing their hands while leaving the door wide open to the most dangerous adventures. This is how dictatorships are established and storms similar to the one currently affecting Ukraine are unleashed. When the fascists (and whatever we say, whatever we think, whatever we do, the nationalist party that came second in the first round of voting is a fascist party, worse perhaps than that of the clown who came fourth, because masking themselves behind false smiles and fallacious words in order to deceive their people) take the destiny of a country into their own hands, they do everything to preserve it by systematically chipping away at the freedoms that democracy offers. Sitting back and allowing it to control our lives is an aberration unworthy of an individual with a minimum of reason.
The candidate for whom I voted was not fortunate enough to please the majority, that does not mean that I feel this kind of pathological disappointment which forces one to withdraw into oneself, to flee forward. leaving it to others to decide for me. Sunday I will go to vote without a shadow of regret.m
I know I won’t convince many people. Never mind. But I will continue to ask myself the question, whether the ni-nors are not a little stupid about playing with fire….
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