It is a healthy mind read from time to time with the authors, a priori, we are not close. Chantal Delsol is assumed Right essayist and proximity, sympathy, for the study of the book of items: populism, allows us to better understand this phenomenon, to outline solutions to try to cure other than now classic demonization and ineffective. Populism is not new and the need to fight against was a major concern of Greek antiquity, which then saw the risk of tyrannies. Chantal Delsol shows how democracy was inseparable from the search for the logos, the search for truth, and opposed to the "stupid" one who lets himself be blinded by his desires and prejudices. Dice its origins Democracy was seen as a move towards civilization, a march towards universal and had to fool enemy (the remained without education who is not involved in politics) to the limited mental horizon and prey easy demagogues. Thus the perverse effects of the famous phrase of Jean-Marie Le Pen "I love my girls than my cousins, my cousins, my neighbors, my neighbors that unknown" had already been denounced by the thinkers of antiquity as undermining Foundations of Democracy. The elites have therefore always been associated with overflow of the immediate and particular to achieve an overall vision, a conception of the public interest. In modern times the problems come from the fact that this process of conceptualization freezes too often "truth" abstract thrust forward, in generalization no longer accepting the challenge. One would find a thousand examples of this in our news, particularly in the economic field. When at the same time the elites are not copies (especially in their relationship to power and money, and sometimes their manners), when you realize that the sacrosanct truths meant to be of general interest, are also used indecent special interests while the people fooled, the "lived", he does not want to move and refuses the necessary adaptation that usually symbolizes the Other, the foreigner. We are there, and it is clear that for lucid minds, Chantal Delsol is one, populism, by definition blind, are always serious dangers for Democracy, it seems equally clear that stigma is powerless to stem the tide of anger and even more so when demagogues claim to lead the helpless people. Having attempted to illuminate the subject Chantal Delsol leaves everyone draw the political conclusions of its finding but it is clear that the attitudes of pride and overhang are more updates. Rather it is essential to share the worries that are heard even if the language of the complaint is not nice, you have to listen, take into account the difficulties that are expressed by populism of the prism without yielding to xenophobic delirium, accept the lived reality of insecurity and identity malaise, anxiety when the personal and collective future. Do not pretend to have the truth, listen, take into account ... Anyway, do politics.
