That is why democracy shall never stop provoking hatred. It is also why this hatred is always present in disguise in laughing tones against asses and horses in Plato’s time in furious diatribes against Benetton campaigns and episodes of Loft Story in the time of a worn-out French Fifth Republic Whether these masks are amusing or scathing the hatred underneath them has a more serious aim. It aims at the intolerable egalitarian condition of inequality itself. So we can reassure the sociologists both professional and occasional who declaim the worrying situation wherein democracy is now deprived of enemies. Democracy is not about to have to brave the anguish of such a comfort. The government of anybody and everybody is bound to attract the hatred of all those who are entitled to govern men by their birth wealth or science. Today it is bound to attract more radically than ever since the social power of wealth no longer tolerates any restrictions on its limitless growth and each day its mechanisms become more closely articulated to those of State action. The pseudo-European Constitution testifies to it a contrario : we are no longer in an age of expert juridical constructions designed to inscribe the irreducible power of the people in oligarchic constitutions. This figure of the political and of political science is behind us. State power and the power of wealth tendentially unite in a sole expert management of monetary and population flows. Together they combine their efforts to reduce the spaces of politics. But reducing these spaces effacing the intolerable and indispensable foundation of the political in the government of anybody and everybody means opening up another battlefield it means witnessing the resurgence of a new radicalized figure of the power of birth and kinship. No longer the power of former monarchies and aristocrats but that of the peoples of God. This power may openly assert itself in the terror practiced by a radical Islam against democracy identified with States of oligarchic law. It may also bolster the oligarchic State at war with this terror in the name of a democracy assimilated by American evangelists to the liberty of fathers obeying the commandments of the Bible and armed for the protection of their property. It France it can be invoked against democratic perversion to safeguard the principle of kinship a principle that some leave in an indeterminate generality but others unceremoniously identify with the law of the people instructed by Moses in the word of God.