If according to the advertising slogan of the 1970s in France we have no oil, but we have ideas, in fact, in France, we do nothing but copy our American neighbors.
Look at the campaigns for the presidential election. We first tried to adapt the famous Democratic and Republican primaries. The results were catastrophic both on the right and on the left. Even if we must recognize a sort of divinatory vision of the ecologists when they preferred the austere and little-known Eva Joly to the flamboyant and media-oriented Nicolas Hulot.
Then, to conquer the supreme position, extreme right-wing agitators thought of doing like Trump in his take of the White House. Why not take a TV host out of his hat, allow him to be omnipresent thanks to complacent televisions and underline every four days how much he is progressing in the polls.
But in France, unlike in the USA, the chosen candidate is not a billionaire who does not look at the expense. He doesn’t have a skyscraper to his name in the heart of New York, just a 100 m2 in Paris, not even enough to pay wealth tax. So you can imagine that to finance an entire electoral campaign, without the help of a well-established party, it seems more and more mission impossible.
Finally, let’s laugh at this last example showing the glaring difference between the USA and France. This past weekend you saw these images everywhere of men and women on the side of the road in California picking up wads of banknotes that escaped from an armored van.
In France also we had the right to a miraculous harvest with a slight delay. Exactly it was Tuesday in the small town of Cassel in the North. But after an accident on a level crossing, it was not tickets that invaded the road, but onions.
Cassel station invaded by a cargo of onions pic.twitter.com/elOdcBokrt
– euxapo (@eaduht) November 23, 2021
I’m telling you, we’re still doing less well than the Americans. You will tell me so much about onions. If still it had been bundles of sorrel.
Chronicle published (in part) on the last page of the Independent on November 25, 2021
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