It is beyond my endurance to continue hearing this class contempt pour out in the cultural “bobo” microcosm toward Bardella’s voters, portrayed as uncultured boors hypnotized by TikTok. To witness privileged thirty-somethings chanting incantations like “youth pisses off the National Front” to feel young and rebellious when all they do is repeat the refrains of their boomer parents in 2002, embodying the past. I find the same sentiments, the same slogans, the same arrogance, the same false consciousness as during the Yellow Vest movement. The same disdain for the working class.
We realize that many leftist petty bourgeois wished Macron had never dissolved the National Assembly, that he kept power indefinitely, perhaps for life, and that he continued quietly dismantling the social state while facing only the theatrical opposition of a left that rallies behind him in every election.
These people do not wish for the repeal of the pension reform, against which they loudly protested in the streets, fully aware that by keeping Macron in power for another five years, it would be adopted.
These people couldn’t care less about the suffering of the working classes, whose demands they claim to represent under the banner of a self-proclaimed "Popular Front" that is nothing more than a consortium of teachers, students, and petty bourgeois snobs. Incapable of listening to the people, but speaking in its name, without ever being close to it.
These people are mere auxiliaries of power, which encourages, supports, and even funds them.
Behind their anti-fascism lies a desire for order. A survival instinct which, as Nietzsche wrote, underlies all bad actions. Whatever they say, the social order as it has persisted for the past forty years suits them well, and for good reason, as they benefit from it. Every opportunity seized by the people to bring about change is perceived by these people as a threat or a disturbance.
These people do not want the people to govern, to decide in their place, to realize its potential. Because they fear the people.
Because they believe themselves intellectually and morally superior. Because they have diplomas. Because they have studied. Because they live in cities that concentrate all the financial flows of globalization. Because their jobs are not threatened by labor immigration, the substitution of the proletariat, deindustrialization, and free trade enshrined in European treaties. Because they do not suffer from the informal power of systemic crime rampant in Islamized neighborhoods that Macron and his cronies have allowed to prosper. They think and say that it’s merely a fantasy. Because they do not know the pain of mothers who must keep close to the walls in housing projects, eyes lowered, avoiding the gaze of the dealer freely conducting his trade in the stairwell as they take their children to school. Because they don’t live there. Because they are bourgeois.
Because they believe they know better than workers, employees, farmers, and artisans what is best for them, though they have never worked with their hands. Because they are bourgeois.
As always, the “vote blocking” will be a class vote. An expression at the polls of the arrogance of people who, through anti-fascism, have found a morally unassailable argument to politically justify their disdain for the poor.
But this time, the dam might very well break, and for once, they might just be forced to keep their mouths shut.
These elections are a historic opportunity to make these people understand just how much they are hated.
