It’s so much more calming to look away when the house is burning. We have the impression that reality does not exist. It seems like everything is fine. We can wallow in a parallel reality. It’s so comfortable. Because if we stop at what is really happening, we can go crazy. What do you prefer? Parallel reality or the one that allows us to resolve problems? We have become specialists in distracting topics when inconvenient data arises. Diversion becomes a political weapon. Part of the media and the political class excel in this art of diversion. Each bad number is immediately diverted to serve a ready-made narrative. We no longer talk about root causes, we talk about convenient scapegoats.
A well-oiled mechanism which consists of hiding the obvious. Take the example of public debt. At the end of 2025, it reached 117.4% of GDP, or 3,482 billion euros according to INSEE, with a record public deficit of 152.5 billion euros. A historic level which places France among the most indebted countries in the euro zone. Classic response from progressives? “The debt is exploding, so we are going to create new social spending.” Left-wing parties have increased proposals to increase social spending (retirement at age 60, minimum wage of 1,600 euros net, increased aid, etc.) and have violently criticized the government’s savings, calling them “social war.” Their shocking argument: we must “invest in the future”. As if adding billions to an abysmal hole would fill it.
We prefer to ignore that this debt mainly finances an obese state and benefits which have never increased as much as since 2017. The diversion is perfect: we blame “austerity” when we have never spent so much. Another example: school. The Pisa 2022 results show France at 474 points in mathematics, very close to the OECD average but with an alarming proportion of students in difficulty. The level has been falling for twenty years, illiteracy is increasing among young people. Response from the same voices? “Public schools are producing more and more illiterates, so we need more resources and less selection.” We are demanding additional billions and eliminating grades or repeating a year. We establish emotional education.
As if the problem came from a lack of money and not from a collapse of demands, from an imposed social diversity and a refusal to name the cultural and demographic causes. Insecurity? It’s already a forbidden word in parallel reality. The 2025 figures from Beauvau and Eurostat are, however, clear: physical violence up 5%, attempted homicide +5%, sexual violence +8%, homicides up slightly. France is among the most dangerous countries in Western Europe on several indicators of violent delinquency. Answer: “The insecurity figures are breaking records, CNews is the problem.“We must close this news channel, LFI declared this week. We turn a blind eye to excess crime and criminalize those who dare to speak about it.
We turn a blind eye to crime and we criminalize CNews
The diversion is total: the real danger is not the riots which cost hundreds of millions in 2023, it is the media which show them. On immigration, it is even more blatant. In 2025, according to the Ministry of the Interior, France has issued nearly 3 million visas, granted 384,000 first residence permits (+11.2%) and has 4.5 million valid permits (8.1% of the population adult). Immigrants represent 11.3% of the total population. It is not because we highlight these figures that we are xenophobic. Even foreigners in France, paradoxically, are worried about the lack of control of the borders. But the diversion consists of putting the label “fascist”, “racist”. The reality we don’t want to see continues peacefully. The bad guys have a nickname, and we no longer look at reality.
We are more busy looking for subjects to label than solving the problems of the French, the problems of France. We reverse causality: the more we welcome, the more tensions we create, the more we accuse the French of racism. The hospital? Saturated, lack of staff, endless delays. Let’s not look. The left prefers to close television channels. Are farmers suffering? HAS”We are going to sign even more free trade agreements.»And let’s close television channels. Purchasing power has been falling for the middle classes for ten years? Let’s close television channels. Some of the highest taxes in the world? HAS” We need to tax businesses and inheritances even more.“Let’s close television channels.
La crise du pétrole et les taxes que l’êtat encaisseÂ? «ÂTotal doit ªtre taxé.» Social Security? Deficit of 21.6 billion euros in 2025. Always more aid, never structural reforms. Let’s close television channels. The banking system? All the French are running to the Revolut bank. This digital bank which is not French, but British. Credit card payment systems like Mastercard? Visa? All Americans. France is not independent in its means of payment. PayPal? Apple Pay? These digital payment systems that many French people use.Â
All American systems. But we continue the regulatory pressures and look elsewhere instead of promoting our economy. Instead of solving the problems, politicians are proposing to close television channels. France is sinking. The numbers scream it. France needs to be looked in the face. The French see it. The numbers scream it. France needs to be looked in the face. And not just on television.
