This couldn't be better for Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, he of the pretentious rich person's two middle names.
For five months now, the Yellow Vest street protest movement has been pressuring Macron and his regime, ripping the facade off his political scam, exposing deep fissures in French society, and revealing the simmering discontent under his neoliberal rule.
Now the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, an iconic symbol of the French nation, will at least temporarily silence the protests as the nation unites as one. Rulers like nothing better than a populace in lockstep conformity. All dissent is for the time being squelched, something months of police violence, including blinding and maiming protesters and killing an elderly woman in her apartment from a supposedly errant police projectile, was unable to achieve. All will now "come together" in common cause, worshipping an old cathedral and watching the repair effort, an effort that will be led rhetorically and mediawise by- guess who?
So just as, in the immortal words of serial sex offender Leslie Moonves, Trump may be bad for America but he's great for CBS, so the cathedral fire may be bad for an old church and French pride, but it's great for one Macron.
For five months now, the Yellow Vest street protest movement has been pressuring Macron and his regime, ripping the facade off his political scam, exposing deep fissures in French society, and revealing the simmering discontent under his neoliberal rule.
Now the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, an iconic symbol of the French nation, will at least temporarily silence the protests as the nation unites as one. Rulers like nothing better than a populace in lockstep conformity. All dissent is for the time being squelched, something months of police violence, including blinding and maiming protesters and killing an elderly woman in her apartment from a supposedly errant police projectile, was unable to achieve. All will now "come together" in common cause, worshipping an old cathedral and watching the repair effort, an effort that will be led rhetorically and mediawise by- guess who?
So just as, in the immortal words of serial sex offender Leslie Moonves, Trump may be bad for America but he's great for CBS, so the cathedral fire may be bad for an old church and French pride, but it's great for one Macron.
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron, President of the French Republic.
Vive la Ruling Neoliberal Elite!
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