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🔴️️️️️️ Discussion sans filtre avec François Lenglet 👉️️️️️️ youtube.com/watch?v=5qS3PZkp… Bon visionnage et n'hésitez pas à partager !

🥰😇 Petit exercice de lecture 😃

The ugly truth about France and some of the other European countries currently in turmoil - and which none of the politicians want to admit because it'd be political suicide - is that you can't solve the problem by going after immigrants (as the right asserts) or the rich (as the left asserts), but you could solve it by going after the old. One extraordinary statistic for you: people over 60 in France, a quarter of the population, own 60% of France's wealth, non-financial and financial (ofce.fr/pdf/revue/2025/3-192…). And here is another crazy statistic: that same quarter of the population, those above 60, receive nearly two-thirds of all social spending by the French government (previssima.fr/actualite/prot…) - which is famously among the highest in the world (France's government spending is an insane 57.3% of GDP). Last statistic: they make up about 40% of voters because they're a third of registered voters (insee.fr/fr/statistiques/266…), and they turn out far more than anyone else (franceinfo.fr/elections/sond…). Put our 3 statistics together and there's almost a bit of an apartheid situation here: the old own most of the country's wealth, collect most of the social spending and have the political power to keep it that way. Which makes them a de-facto rentier class, living off assets and transfers paid for by younger generations. And, of course, at the risk of stating a truism, the future is built by the young. Yet France keeps effectively taking money away from them to give it to those whose working lives are already behind them - and need the money far less since they already own the country's wealth. What about inheritance, I hear you ask? That's the funniest/saddest aspect: given that life expectancy has kept rising, the French now inherit a home at 54 on average. The most common case is someone in their 80s leaving it to heirs in their 50s, in effect the very old transferring wealth to the about-to-be old (insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fic…). You can add this to our earlier apartheid statement: on top of all the rest, even when the old finally let go of their wealth, it stays within their own "camp". That's my personal situation, incidentally: I'm 42, my father is 71 and he is starting to look at ways to pass things on to me and my siblings, when our professional lives are already well settled, so it'll arrive when it changes things the least, which is pretty much the French system in a nutshell. Now, I get that there'd be some unfairness in going after them: they paid into the system their entire working lives, playing by the rules of a social contract that told them if they paid up they'd collect at the end. Changing the rules now means breaking that promise, which is admittedly unfair. But there's no magic wealth tree in any society: you can only take it where it is. That's the way most major societal transformations end up happening. They're often triggered by a catastrophic event (the so-called "four horsemen": mass-mobilisation war, revolution, state collapse, plague) BUT what really drives change is a transfer: wealth gets pried from the privileged class who've been sitting on it and handed to those who'll build what comes next. So, in theory and in an ideal world, you can do without the catastrophic event and directly proceed with the transfer... The fact that in France, and elsewhere in Europe, it's the youth protesting is probably no coincidence - even though they don't frame it as a generational fight. And even though, cruel irony, the left politicians many of them march behind promise to bring the retirement age back to 60 (lcp.fr/actualites/legislativ…), which would make the situation even worse. Let's say they understand intuitively that the system is stacked against them, even if they haven't yet figured out how. And politicians are obviously doing what politicians do, meaning pandering to the people who actually vote, while pointing the young towards easier - and politically convenient - scapegoats. To be clear I'm not saying it's the only problem in France, VERY far from it. I'm also not saying that all old people in France live a lavish lifestyle at the expense of younger generations: there are also plenty of very poor retirees who, if anything, would deserve more. What I am saying is that it's probably the biggest elephant in the room: everyone can see it, nobody dares mention it - no politician, from any side, wants to run on cutting grandma's pension - and it makes every other problem harder to fix.

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La France entre dans une période d'incertitude où l'expérience ne sera plus un luxe mais une condition de survie. Avant de choisir, regardons ce qui a été fait, pas ce qui a été dit. François Hollande a présidé la France de 2012 à 2017. Les faits, uniquement les faits. Janvier 2015, Charlie Hebdo et l'Hyper Cacher. Novembre 2015, le Bataclan. Juillet 2016, Nice. La République n'a pas vacillé. Le 11 janvier 2015, près de 4 millions de Français ont défilé et une quarantaine de chefs d'État et de gouvernement ont marché à Paris derrière le président français. Aucun autre dirigeant européen n'a jamais réuni cela. Janvier 2013, opération Serval. Les colonnes djihadistes sont stoppées à quelques jours de Bamako. Le 2 février 2013, un président français est acclamé par la foule malienne. Suivront Sangaris en Centrafrique et Barkhane au Sahel. La France était alors la seule puissance occidentale à assumer ce rôle en Afrique. Décembre 2015, l'Accord de Paris sur le climat est signé par 195 parties sous présidence française. Le seul traité universel sur le climat de l'histoire porte le nom de notre capitale. Février 2015, accords de Minsk II négociés en format Normandie avec Merkel, Poutine et Porochenko. Août 2015, annulation de la vente des deux porte-hélicoptères Mistral à la Russie, un contrat de 1,2 milliard d'euros, après l'annexion de la Crimée. Il a payé le prix de la fermeté. Sur les comptes, le déficit public hérité à plus de 5 % du PIB en 2011 est repassé sous les 3 % en 2017, une première depuis 2007. La croissance a atteint 2,3 % en 2017, son meilleur niveau en dix ans. Le taux de chômage au sens du BIT, en hausse continue depuis 2008, a plafonné à 10,5 % mi-2015 puis reculé à 9,6 % au premier trimestre 2017. Décembre 2016, il renonce à se représenter. Seul président élu de la Ve République à l'avoir fait. Pas une affaire judiciaire, pas un procès, pas une mise en examen, pendant ou après le mandat. Face à un pays fracturé et à un monde qui se referme, la question n'est pas de savoir qui a le plus d'ambition. Elle est de savoir qui a déjà tenu la barre dans la tempête. Raphaël Glucksmann, Gabriel Attal, Édouard Philippe, Dominique de Villepin : vous avez du talent et du temps devant vous. La France, elle, n'a plus le temps. Laissez la place à celui qui a prouvé. L'union nationale autour de François Hollande n'est pas un choix partisan. C'est une question de survie.

Au contraire, ils ont grandi avec des histoires de rebellion de la jeunesse contre l'ordre établi, le monde laissé par les adultes, l'autoritarisme. Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Maze Runner, One Piece, et tellement tellement d'autre. Ce qu'on voit est culturellement très cohérent

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