These deconstruction exercises are first and foremost about an ideology that I think is fair to say most of us here on ET are fighting. But the fact remains that this ideology has been pushed by the right in the US and the UK, and has entered the mainstream of these two countries as "common wisdom", and there is an element of national superiority in pushing that ideology, especially against the designated opponent, the French (or alternatively the "Rhenan" countries), the country(ies) which (used to) have the most coherent competing economic model.

It is Wall St and the City against Bercy (the French Ministry of economy and industry), and it is London and Washington against Paris and Berlin - even if by all means not all English agree and not all French disagree with those we've been calling the freemarketistas.

So yes, I react as a Frenchman who sees his country mocked and brought down on a daily basis in the name of a dangerous ideology, and that plays a role. But please also admit that that ideological assault also has a real anti-continental bent, as exemplified by Thatcher's famous quote:

This century, all the problems of the world have come from the continent and all the solutions from the English-speaking world.

It's up to us to manage this tension between the ideological fight and the national rivalry. You are right to flag what you see as abusive generalisations or attacks from me, but please don't forget the context.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes