Once, in politics, money exists, honesty and loyalty soon disappear. Eric Halphen''s analysis is
wonderful. We can be idealists
at first but when we are constantly given free airplane tickets, hosted at luxurious residencies, free car rentals, ... we start to think that all the previous is normal, before starting to think at a later stage that we deserve all that. That we demand it. We won''t find it normal if we weren''t priviledged; we bend rules,
especially when we can do that. Then come accounts in Switzerland, at the Caiman islands, or in Lichtenstein, prior to huge companies, and world-wide robberies. All this ends up in convincing a part of the population that democratie no longer exists. This pushes to extremism on many aspects: religious integrism, Communism, National Front, etc... We knew all that of course; this goes without saying it, but it feels so much better saying it, especially when a
wonderful writer''s talent adds up to it.