Re: French Join In on Anti-France Bandwagon

"CB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> The cross reference of ideas is the key to imagination (playboy quote from
> the 80's).
> 

Can you imagine how USENET would look like if all Playboy fans pratice
this advice?

Thanks God, today this problem concerns only people with severe
dyslexia.

> Believe it or not, France sitting on the UN Security Council has relevance
> to how the French think of their own leader. Or does French leadership not
> form policy based on public opinion? Isn't France a Socialist Democracy
> which values popular opinion over Legislative mandate? In other words,
> doesn't the will of the people trickle up as far as influencing the UN
> through it's ambassadors?

French politicians are as popular as in the US. in other words, very
few people are actually interesting by what they say. If you want to
make a French citizen your ennemy, don't bash Chirac but smash his TV
screen.

Most French are most interested by a TV show promoting young pop
singers than by politicians speeches.

As you probably know people crowding USENET are far from being the
average Joe. If France or the USA would be crowded by the average
surfer browsing USENET (mainly those related to politic), WWIII is a
matter of time.

Concerning what the French State could be: the French state is  a
constitutional republic with bicameral chambers and an executive
government. The constitution (IE the law) is above anything else. I'm
not quite sure that France values popular opinion over legislative
mandate. For example Chirac had only roughly 20% (or more) for the
first presidential round. Actually 80% (or less) voted first for
somebody else.

I do think that democracy is only used as the less worst mechanism to
elect somebody at the office (I don't have the Churchill's quote in
mind). You need somebody at the top of the state, you need a state to
rule the society.

A system where popular opinion would be above legislative mandates
would be a direct democracy. We are far from in most western
countries.

Olivier