Democracies tend to gravitate around the center of what their people want. If the people consistently vote to one side, then the centre will move to that side. This is a cultural process of years - and yes, you're exhibiting exactly the forest-for-the-trees thinking I was talking about.
To answer your question, I think the same people voted for the French governement as the ones who are daily clicking on Amazon quite happily.
Do you think they are mistaking forests for trees when clicking on Amazon, but expressing great wisdom when voting?
Do you think that when the politicians voted on this particular law, they were thinking of the people or the business interests that fund them?
mistaking forests for trees - That is not what that idiom means. It has nothing to do with being confused or being mistaken.
but expressing great wisdom when voting - No, but what you're doing here is reclassifying my attempts at discussing nuance into a silly dichotomy of extremes. Even if nothing else, I never said the French were wise - nor unwise for that matter. That's you trying to strawman me into a ridiculous position. I said that long-term, over the course of years, democracies settles around certain tenets. For the French, the importance of culture is one of them.
You're free to have the last comment, as I'm done here.