this was the state of democracy in 1888 France, and things have not improved since then; they have only worsened."
Source: Bersone Clotilde - L'élue du dragon: "The autobiography of a high-ranking member of a powerful secret society who repented and converted to Catholicism."
"...Thus, the legislative elections (August-September 1881) and the partial renewal of the Senate on January 8, 1882, marked, for the first time, despite the apparent triumph of the Republicans, a setback and almost a rout for the occult leadership of Illuminism, if not for the lower Masonry of the Grand Lodge and the Grand Orient. Many candidates supported by the Lodge, at least to hold the place of more feared adversaries, were left behind or suffered, as senatorial or deputy candidates, significant losses of votes that shook their position.
And, no doubt, the composition of the two Chambers at that time makes it clear enough that Masonry still had enough secret supporters in both camps to explain how, despite this secret failure of a disbanding staff, its troops were bound to win the battle. This is the inevitable outcome of any parliamentary comedy. The so-called sovereign People, the Chambers themselves, and the government are perpetually maneuvered by a clan who controls all the strings. In vain would honest people, Catholics, or the right try to double their chances; the game is rigged from the start, and even those who seem to gain from the stakes as adversaries of the regime have only paid for a betrayal.
In reality, the Lodge continued to count among its Council members a large number of influential ministers, members of the Bureau of both Chambers, major commissions, high finance, and administration. Most of the leaders, even in the opposition, were either aligned with us or, at the very least, bound by subsidies and dishonorable secrets. From their violent rhetoric, one might have taken some of them for irreconcilable adversaries of Freemasonry; in reality, they were tasked, by offering this outlet for the inevitable Catholic reaction, with misdirecting the blows, channeling the resistance, diverting the debate from the most embarrassing questions and people, and especially preventing anyone from touching the true occult force behind this power, which was on its way to dominating the entire country.
How could the "People" have guessed this immense deception? Which saviors could have freed them, when they themselves were either imprisoned or sold out? Anyone who has not touched the hidden mechanism of contemporary history will never find a plausible explanation for it. It alone, in any case, helps to understand how, ten times before and since this date, a so-called reactionary parliamentary majority has only managed to ultimately strengthen the power in the hands of the defeated anticlericalism and radicalism."