FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE- “That’s better,” said Francois Hollande, on the state of France since the beginning of his term, when the emission of France 2 Dialogues citizens .For Eric Verhaeghe, this sentence is more for himself, before turning to the voters.
Eric Verhaeghe is Tripalio founder of a start-up of the union. This former student of ENA held positions in the managerial world and assumed various joint mandates. He was also director of social security. His next book, Does not help you and the state will help you , was released January 25 by Editions du Rocher. Find his columns on his website.
At its very boring television service last night, Hollande as walled up in his castle, made a terrible “things are better” that arouses hilarity on social networks. In appearance, the phrase sounds like a terrible denial of reality. But in context, it is especially very revealing posture Holland, his ambition for the country and its angle of attack for the next presidential election.
Holland and denial reality
It should be inflated to assert before the French that “it gets better” without giggling.
recall that in the month of February 2013, Hollande assured that growth would almost magically. The influence of Moscovici and his band of economists in three balls, some members of the National Assembly, then was rampant. In good faith, Holland was convinced that they were right: we could indefinitely increase taxes, constraints, rigidities in the labor market, nothing would prevent the return of growth
From. beginning of his term, in reality, Holland does not believe it can act on the economy. However, it is imbued with the idea that economic cycles act regardless of the policy. Just fall in time to govern, and things are done alone. While Germany is full employment, unemployment disaster in France to measure the extent of his cataclysmic mistake.
Hollande argues that growth returns. Rather, it should tremble in his breeches. If France is not in recession, we must first see the effect hundreds of billions that the European Central Bank discreetly pours on our economies. In principle, with the strong medicine that is used by Mario Draghi, France should see inflation at 5% and a growth of at least 3%. The fact that the GDP will grow only 1% and thus causes the presidential bliss confirms that François Hollande really has nothing to economic fact and is completely overwhelmed by his office.
How many citizens are dupes? Very little, probably, proving once again that truth is in the French people, that populism much maligned is the only sustainable way out of the crisis.
Holland unfolds
Search the “feeling better” reasonable judgment on the reality does not make sense, and it is not even certain that Hollande commit a real denial by saying the . He himself believes are not and probably not trying to make us believe that “it gets better”. It is much more obvious that his sentence is more for himself, before turning to the voters.
This is where the President called normal full measure of normality. No, he did not pretend to be a superhero that would turn France into a happy, prosperous, modern, radiant.
Hollande said “it gets better” as the cancer patient says “I feel better” after an operation that removed him from infected tumors organs. It does not say “it’s going well,” but only “I’m still not dead” and I even won a few extra weeks of life. It is very likely that the president can not stand the test of his deep unpopularity and its vast incompetence in believing that anything could have been much worse. The fact that he is still in office, the country has not “exploded” after the attacks of 13 November shows that “it gets better”.
This is where the President gives normal the full measure of normality. No, he did not pretend to be a superhero that would turn France into a happy, prosperous, modern, radiant. These big dreams are not for him, and he would probably not much to push it maintains that this dream is inaccessible, or is the fact pretentious fools, dangerous demagogues.
the trick of Holland, it is rather the simple pleasure of saying we’re still not dead! well, it’s true, we are spoiled, we have no idea, no vision, no skill. But who among all those who are smarter than we would have done better?
Holland, a Flaubert hero candidate for reelection
lovers Flaubert have recognized Hollande a reincarnation of pure pharmacist Homais in Madame Bovary. His posture is not successful. It is to show that mediocrity is the least worst solution and that failure is not that dramatic. Even in a shipwreck survivors who find themselves on a deserted beach end up saying, “I feel better.” At least when one has no ambition for his country, it is almost certain not to be disappointed, and we can not be accused of having lied completely.
And this is the dilemma of France today. She knows that now she goes, she is suspended.
This is obviously the strategy proposes that François Hollande in 2017, facing a Sarkozy or Le Pen a . There will adventurers who propose large projects panting, with stars in their eyes, blood, sweat and tears. And then there will be François Hollande who will simply say, “ I am boring, incompetent, unimaginative, I’m the man of yourself. But at least I do not sell any illusions and with me, you are sure not to embark on an uncertain adventure. “
Basically, Holland asked to choose between the dangers of epic and certainties station novel. And his whole argument focuses on the virtues of the latter: no dream, certainly, no ambition, no size, but a cushy project, where we will limit breakage and where vivotera as long as possible and without stress quietly, waiting for death.
the trouble sitting against Night Stand
While the sores of Night Stand gather tirelessly indefinitely to reflect on what would be a better world, François Hollande proposes exactly the opposite approach: that of Boredom Sitting. You put yourself in your chair, you open a can of beer, you turn on your TV, and you do not ask you to issue watch football until death comes. Occasionally, you answer questions by threading banalities and stammered a few excuses not get to do better.
And this is the dilemma of France today. She knows that now she goes, she is suspended. But she prefers perhaps certainly die, but slowly, rather than face the risk of being reborn.
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