Merde alors, says Stuart Jeffries
"What is especially fascinating about the results of the French presidential election is that it is the relatively comfortable old rather than the uncertain and afraid young who voted for Sarkozy's revolution. The so-called internet generation of 18- to 24-year-olds voted 58% for the socialist candidate Ségolène Royal, while Sarkozy benefited from what some commentators have described as a "wrinkly landslide": 61% of voters in their 60s and 68% of the over-70s chose Sarko over Sego in the second round of the presidential election.
What this reveals is a marvellous example of Gallic hypocrisy: those older French people on good pensions after secure careers in well-remunerated, possibly public, posts, many of them, no doubt the soixante-huitards [veterans of the 1968 riots] whose radicalism is as unimpeachable as it is venerable, sought to encourage young French people to expose themselves to what they never face - the chill winds of job insecurity and cuts in public services."
(Goodbye to la belle France ?, Stuart Jeffries, Guardian)
What this reveals is a marvellous example of Gallic hypocrisy: those older French people on good pensions after secure careers in well-remunerated, possibly public, posts, many of them, no doubt the soixante-huitards [veterans of the 1968 riots] whose radicalism is as unimpeachable as it is venerable, sought to encourage young French people to expose themselves to what they never face - the chill winds of job insecurity and cuts in public services."
(Goodbye to la belle France ?, Stuart Jeffries, Guardian)
1 commentaire:
"Notons d'abord que, si Nicolas Sarkozy a su capter près des 2 tiers du vote des + de 60 ans, il est majoritaire dans d'autres segments d'âge considérés comme les + "jeunes", comme les 25-34ans (avec, selon l'étude Ipsos, 57% de voix), ou à égalité avec Ségolène Royal, chez les 35-44ans. L'influence générationnelle doit donc être plus nuancée..."
Serge Guérin, le Monde du 19/05.
La situation est pire que je ne craignais!
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