A tale of two countries

Debriefing our recent France visit wouldn’t be complete without some comparisons about how we see the world compared to that country’s population, focusing of course on what we’ve learned as we were among friends, family and other folks we’ve ran into. 

This is mostly a reflection spanning the four years we’ve not been in Europe, including of course the Covid years. In truth, the pandemic has been the sole huge subject of concern for my countrymen, while in the United States we were not just confronted to it, but also to Trump’s wannabe dictatorship that culminated in his January 6 attempted Coup. 

This trauma still carries on as the fascist candidate hopes to get back into the White House instead of spending some quality time behind bars as he fully deserves. Interestingly, many French people don’t believe that Donald Trump will ever be jailed and are unaware that Biden will run again for a second term. 

There also seems to be a widespread ignorance about how “fake news” are seeping through society and how little attention is paid to the source of news consumed by the French public leading to all kinds of weird beliefs and conspiracy theories.

Overall I would say that one outstanding difference between our two nations is that the United States is a YOUNG country with presidents that are way too OLD, while France is an OLD nation with a president that is a bit too YOUNG! Does this make any sense?