Macronism, an extreme centrism that is destroying France

Macronism, an extreme centrism that is destroying France

par Michel Geoffroy

Source: https://www.polemia.com/le-macronisme-un-extreme-centrisme-qui-detruit-la-france/

Bans, censorship and blocked votes increasingly characterise the post-democratic presidency of Emmanuel Macron and his minority government. Because the presidential en-même-temps (at the same time) imposes on us the worst of the left and the worst of the right. Macron's extreme centrism is a guaranteed double whammy for the French!

Left-wing extreme centrism

From the left, Macron's extreme centrism is forcing on us endless deficits, unlimited immigration, societal follies, egalitarianism in schools, anti-frontierism, anti-Catholic secularism and security chaos.

Left-wing Macronism also imposes on us a dual justice system because it is ideologised: soft on the scum, the "unbalanced" and the black blocs, hard on the France below, the French who defend themselves and the Identitaires.

No liberty for the enemies of liberty: Saint-Just's old slogan is more topical than ever in the leftist macronie, as evidenced by the unmitigated crackdown on the Gilets jaunes, the repeated prefectoral bans, the increasing censorship of dissenting opinions and the bringing to heel of the media and social networks.

Like any man of the left

Like any socialist, Emmanuel Macron is also an Atlanticist and, like any man of the left, he dreams of sending others to wage war on tyrants, but without giving them the means to do so: with him our country is therefore aligning itself with the most dangerous NATO postures and renouncing its position as a balancing power. While our armies lack everything.

Finally, the left-wing macronie is taking us with relish into the "Great Green Reset": the one that wants to attack individual property ownership, that wants to regulate our travel or our gastronomy, that wants cities without private cars and motorways with reduced speed, that wants to deflate car tyres and ban inflatable swimming pools, that wants to impose a climate tax and no doubt tomorrow a climate pass. In other words, the ecologism of the Khmer verts, which recycles the utopianism of the far left and the class hatred of the bobos towards France "that smokes and drives on diesel".

Far-right centrism

From the right, Macron's extreme centrism is forcing us to align ourselves with a free-trade European Union that has planned the end of French energy independence and our country's specific characteristics. And submission to a Union dominated by Germany.

Macronism is also forcing us to methodically deconstruct social protection (for the natives alone, of course), reduce pensions, privatise and close down public services, reduce social security reimbursements, deconstruct the sovereign State, give tax impunity to large globalised companies, abandon all control of the economy and finance in favour of the markets.

And on the pretext of making France more economically attractive, Macronism is leading to the sell-off of our industrial flagships and a de facto collusion with the interests of the big private monopolies, in particular pension funds and the GAFAMs. While billionaires share out the mainstream media.

With the complicity of the old right

With the active participation of politicians from the old right, particularly in the Senate and the Constitutional Council, Macronism is also quietly putting in place a society of control, under the pretext of security or health: continued extension of police powers, introduction into ordinary law of measures from the state of emergency, deployment of video surveillance, experimentation with facial recognition, remote police control of computers and smartphones, tapping of communications, introduction of restrictions on travel or gatherings, digital tracing of the population.

Of course, none of these measures will prevent Islamism or the explosion of insecurity and violence in our country, as everyone can see, because they are aimed above all at preventing any revolt by the French people. And in particular to block any emergence of a genuine political alternative to the System, also with the complicity of the barons of the old Right.

Governing from the centre?

In the 1970s, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing claimed that France wanted to be "governed at the centre", i.e. to reconcile order and progress by avoiding the excesses of both the left and the right.

Emmanuel Macron, on the other hand, is doing exactly the opposite: his extreme centrism consists of taking the worst of both political families and imposing on the French people a policy that the majority of them reject.

Emmanuel Macron is constantly playing with the left and the right as circumstances dictate: for example, his militant environmentalism aims to appeal both to the far left and to the Davos Forum. So far, this has enabled it to be elected, re-elected or saved thanks to the joint or alternative support of the left and the old right.

But this political balancing act comes at a price: an unprecedented French regression, increasingly visible and less and less supported by the French people.

Who is Michel Geoffroy?

Michel Geoffroy, ENA. Essayist, regular contributor to the Polémia Foundation; has published various editions of the "Dictionnaire de Novlangue" in collaboration with Jean-Yves Le Gallou. Booksof Michel Geoffroy:  La Super-classe mondiale contre les peuples, La Nouvelle guerre des mondes and Bienvenue dans le meilleur des mondes