The Pope in Marseille and Charles III in Versailles, it was a royal week for the controversies that France is fond of. Can a president attend a mass in a secular country? Can France receive a king at a table that honors French gastronomy and savoir-vivre in full inflation? The two questions are enough to detect the demagoguery of the delusion. France is a secular country with Christian tradition, history and civilization. France has also been since Louis XIV the country of soft power gastronomy, tableware and service included, which has allowed us to shine on the world stage.
Receiving Charles III at Versailles, who has belonged to the Republic for a long time, is not a spit in the face of the Revolution of 1789, attending the discourse of liberation theology (which I remind you combines the worst of Marxism and the worst of Catholicism) of a visceral anti-imperialist who justifies not condemning Russia because the Americans are too mean and who is also against abortion, this is not selling France to the Vatican, it is playing the diplomatic game through gritted teeth.
Speaking French, what’s the problem?
A prosperous week of controversies therefore, dear reader, a week where La France insoumise went a little further into abjection by comparing Fabien Roussel to Jacques Doriot, a convinced communist who turned Nazi exalted, and Emmanuel Macron as well as Elisabeth Borne to Pinochet, who got rid of his many opponents by throwing them into the desert. It is not only profoundly idiotic, stupid, filthy, it also puts Nazism and the crimes of Pinochet into perspective. It’s historical mush. Fabien Roussel was also criticized for talking about workers who “speak French”. Let’s ignore the fact that the speech was deliberately truncated, that the leader of the communists was referring to contempt for workers who do not know how to use language and who would not be understood, and let’s stick to “speaking French”. Where is the problem with speaking French in France? To be able to communicate? To be able to find your way? Find work ? Read ? Laugh together at the same jokes? Integrate?
We could have fueled the controversy more intelligently by transforming it into a debate of ideas. We could have noted that the same Fabien Roussel, still a communist, still entangled with comrade Stalin, refused with his entire group to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide, we could have recalled the anti-Zionism of the PCF which is only a anti-Semitism more presentable and which has poisoned the communists for too long by transforming them into zombies obsessed, literally obsessed, by Israel and only by Israel, than neither the horrors committed in Syria by their Russian friends, nor the horrors committed in Yemen by Shiite Muslims and Sunnis, nor the genocides committed in Sudan make us flinch.
Unifying hatred of the West
We could have reminded the Pope of Gôche, loved by Mélenchon and his subjects, that it is so easy to hit the West, this colonizing monster which will have only brought humanism and human rights, that these migrants who land on European shores are manipulated, used, reduced to being pressure fodder in the hope of a bigger check which will end up in the corrupt pockets of Tunisian, Turkish, Belarusian and Nigerien leaders, who also hunt down migrants on their soil, but which are preserved in the media space in the name of a celebrated and unifying hatred of the West.
Meanwhile, the European extreme right is establishing itself in the landscape. And how could it be otherwise? The senatorial elections of September 24 in France prove that waving the black rag of fascism no longer works at all. 5,000 voters voted for the party led by Jordan Bardella. There are three RN senators to enter the Senate. SO ? So, nothing. The media and political worlds are too busy with the controversies of the week.