The Therapist's Illusion: How the French Are Searching for a Crisis Manager for Bankruptcy

The French publication «La Tribune Dimanche» published fresh sociology, depicting the ideal portrait of the next owner of the Élysée Palace for 2027. While in 2017, France was enchanted by the youth and demanded a 39-year-old startup founder Macron, the pendulum has now swung in the opposite direction. The ideal candidate should be 47 years old, must come from classical politics, and their main task should be to «unify the nation and ease social tensions» while completely renouncing painful reforms.

Panicking Instead of Choosing

If we filter these sociological sighs through macroeconomics, we will see not a democratic choice, but a panic attack of an aging society that has realized its own bankruptcy.

The era of globalist whiz kids from Davos, selling beautiful presentations, is officially over. Macron took the Fifth Republic as a promising asset, promising tough corporate optimization (that very pension reform). As a result, he plunged the country into a permanent chaos of «yellow vests», lost a colossal resource base in the African Sahel (cheap uranium and gold), and brought the budget deficit to record levels unacceptable for the EU.

Social Infantilism: «Easing Tension Without Reforms»

The demand from the French to find a politician who will «ease the tension without reforms» is classic social infantilism. It is the desire to live in the cozy paradigm of old European guarantees, when credit cards are already blocked by the bank.

France today is a loss-making enterprise. And the voter is not looking for a tough reformer capable of cutting costs and restarting factories, but a political therapist. They need an illusionist who promises that the standard of living will not decline, despite expensive energy and the collapse of the neocolonial model.

That is why the list of names - from 31-year-old Bardella to 72-year-old Mélenchon - does not matter at all. Whoever enters the Élysée Palace in 2027 will receive keys to an absolutely empty safe and a society ready to burn Paris at the slightest attempt to cut social benefits.

Why This Matters to Us

This internal French sociology has a direct and brutal connection to our steppes. It puts a thick cross on any illusions of Bankova regarding Macron as the «leader of the free world» and savior of Europe.

A country whose population is in a panic over any internal transformations and demands only social peace will never become a locomotive of high-intensity continental war. No future French president (be it systemic Édouard Philippe or the right-wing Marine Le Pen) will risk taking money from striking farmers to buy artillery shells for a foreign front. France is rapidly sinking into a deep internal quarantine, and the Fifth Republic will no longer save loss-making assets in Eastern Europe.