{"id":65332,"date":"2002-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/11\/08\/revolution-culturelle\/"},"modified":"2002-11-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-08T00:00:00","slug":"revolution-culturelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/11\/08\/revolution-culturelle\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00e9volution culturelle<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

R\u00e9volution culturelle<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t8 novembre 2002 Parmi les commentaires que nous avons lus de l’\u00e9lection am\u00e9ricaine du 5 novembre, ressort certainement comme un des plus profonds et des plus brillants celui de Hugo Young, le 7 novembre dans le Guardian<\/a>. Il confirme d’une certaine fa\u00e7on un autre article dont nous avions signal\u00e9 l’int\u00e9r\u00eat, celui de Paul Krugman \u00e0 la veille du scrutin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tPour rappel : Krugman signalait la polarisation id\u00e9ologique grandissante aux USA : \u00ab Of course, some pundits tell you that not much is at stake in this particular election, that the parties aren’t really very different on the issues. I don’t know what planet they are living on: in reality, the parties are further apart than they have been since the 1930’s. The fact that anyone imagines otherwise is a tribute to the timidity of the Democrats, who are afraid to say what they really think, and the subterfuge of the Republicans, who show a disciplined willingness to pretend to hold positions they actually abhor.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tCe que nous dit Hugo Young peut se r\u00e9sumer en quelques points :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• Le vote du 5 novembre a donn\u00e9 les mains libres au parti r\u00e9publicain dans tous les centres de pouvoir qui importent. (Outre la pr\u00e9sidence et le Congr\u00e8s, bient\u00f4t la Cour Supr\u00eame o\u00f9 des juges vont partir \u00e0 la retraite. Ils seront remplac\u00e9s par des magistrats r\u00e9publicains de tendance extr\u00e9miste.) L’importance de ce vote est essentiellement int\u00e9rieure. Le parti r\u00e9publicain utilisera le blanc-seing dont il dispose d\u00e9sormais pour appliquer un programme de changement et de r\u00e9forme compl\u00e8tement radicales.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Even if the process was messy, the outcome is unambiguous. Now that he controls all the political institutions House, Senate, White House Bush can move to infiltrate the judiciary. Dozens of conservative federal judges with lifetime tenure await confirmation they can now expect to get. This will permanently reorient constitutional trends. The slashing of forests and the drilling of wilderness, by timber and oil interests newly let loose, will be still less reversible. The rich men’s tax cuts of 2001 will be secured against revision, and other tax cuts added. The 40 million Americans without health insurance can expect to remain that way. Axioms of inequality will be engraved deeper into the pillars of American society.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t• Ce programme ne peut en aucun cas \u00eatre suivi par aucun parti conservateur europ\u00e9en, au premier rang desquels le parti conservateur britannique, en pleine crise avec un leader (Ian Duncan-Smith) totalement d\u00e9savou\u00e9 alors qu’il avait pens\u00e9 pouvoir remettre le parti \u00e0 flot en suivant la voie ouverte par GW Bush. \u00ab None of these preferences [of the U.S. Republican party] has much appeal to many Europeans, and the best exemplar of this is not German social democracy but British conservatism. The Republicans confirm themselves as a role model the Tories cannot follow.<\/em> \u00bb Il s’agit donc d’une rupture politique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• Mais la cons\u00e9quence ext\u00e9rieure de ce vote am\u00e9ricain et ce qui s’ensuivra est beaucoup plus grave. Hugo Young estime que la distance sociale et culturale qui existait entre l’Europe et les USA va d\u00e9sormais s’accentuer \u00e0 tr\u00e8s grande vitesse. Il s’agit par cons\u00e9quence d’une rupture sociale et culturelle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The mid-term elections, therefore, lock the America-Europe divide more firmly into place. They define a society, more starkly than at any time in 50 years, that’s trending in a different direction. <\/em>[…] From east to west, in several unexpected places, sometimes marginally but always decisively, American voters have made a statement that separates them from most other mature societies.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t• Pour l’Europe, conclut Hugo Young, et pour le Royaume-Uni, la le\u00e7on est particuli\u00e8rement d\u00e9stabilisante et grave. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab This was the week, however, when the US declared itself a different country. That’s what will leave a historic mark. The capture of the Senate makes possible the advance of materialistic individualism on many fronts. State and community are in retreat. Corporate power, instead of being shamed by its recent crimes, can be expected to advance. This is the Republican way, which America has now undeniably endorsed. A truism often heard is that what happens in California today will quickly reach New York. Its sub-clause says that the political economy of the US will sooner or later make its way east to Europe. The 21st century is beginning quite differently.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tC’est pourquoi nous parlons de r\u00e9volution culturelle, mais sans tambours ni trompettes sur la forme, sauf pour des observateurs comme Hugo Young. De plus en plus, l’Europe se trouve prise entre des engagements politiques et strat\u00e9giques qui rendent compte de ses relations pass\u00e9es avec les USA, et peut-\u00eatre des illusions concernant ces relations pass\u00e9es avec les USA, et d’autre part une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 qui s’impose \u00e0 une vitesse extraordinaire, de l’installation d’un syst\u00e8me et de conceptions qui lui sont totalement \u00e9trang\u00e8res. Ce n’est m\u00eame plus de l’unilat\u00e9ralisme. Les USA sont d\u00e9sormais \u00ab a different country<\/em> \u00bb, apr\u00e8s une d\u00e9cision \u00ab that separates them from most other mature societies<\/em> \u00bb Il sera difficile de passer tout cela sous silence, malgr\u00e9 la crainte de nos \u00e9lites d’\u00eatre soup\u00e7onn\u00e9es d’antiam\u00e9ricanisme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUn dernier point en forme d’interrogation, le point d’interrogation de la situation am\u00e9ricaine. Personne ne nie que ce vote du 5 novembre, quoiqu’il entra\u00eene comme changements, a aussi confirm\u00e9 que ce pays reste divis\u00e9 \u00e0 50-50. Cela signifie que la moiti\u00e9 des USA n’a plus de repr\u00e9sentation politique. Comment s’exprimera cette moiti\u00e9 et comment supportera-t-elle un programme qui est l’exact contraire de ce qu’elle r\u00e9clame ?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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