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At least, in France, in my opinion, it's becoming difficult to find favourable coverage of the government in the press, even in state-owned media. I find it neu
by lgeorget 6y ago
At least, in France, in my opinion, it's becoming difficult to find favourable coverage of the government in the press, even in state-owned media. I find it neutral at best.
- mschuster91 6y agoAt least you French have a decent and established culture of protesting, compared to us Germans...
- heavenlyblue 6y agoMy first question would be whether the culture of protesting and having constantly negative coverage of the government makes any difference in a country full of old money.
- vkou 6y agoI'm not sure how much of a difference it makes, but given that France is on its fifth republic in 200 years, it certainly seems to be capable of changing how its governed.
- rStar 6y agoor, was, before the internet enabled fascism to the extent that it has.
- vkou 6y agoWe've yet to see that proven conclusively.
- munk-a 6y agoI feel like one the best examples of out-spoken minority rules might be the recent rabid defense of confederate statues. I agree that we have yet to see conclusive evidence - but we've got a whole bunch of strong indicators including my absolute least favorite: rampant nepotism.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoFrance had literally lost control over it’s government about 6 times since 1815. So of course it’s capable of changing how it’s governed - it was never a choice.
- Bost 6y agoWrong. In France, this "culture of protest" means to go all-in, on strike, right from the beginning for any reason, be it serious or just a pettiness. And in France, taking it to the streets and making noise is more often than not some sort of a social happening, too often for economical reasons, like yellow wests initially did. Not for any "higher" reasons like democracy, justice, freedom etc. It's individual people and various interest groups competing (on a wider level) with each other in their subsidiary demands, united in their fear of loosing status and comparative influence of the social group they belong to. E.g. rail-road syndicates. In short: Citizens of a rich country worried about their pockets, demanding reforms, refusing change, regarding it be some a kind of a zero-sum game, thus preferring short-term egoistic strategies. Compare it with Eastern Europe with seldom protests, maybe once in 20 years or so. And not against poverty but for justice (Slovakia), democracy (Ukraine, Serbia) or alike.
- dgellow 6y agoWhat do you mean? Living in Germany I see plenty of protests.