RE: The people of France are rioting-Yellow Vest Movement
This is actually about a lot more than high gas tax, that's just what the mainstream media wants you to believe. They don't want more people joining in on this so there has been a media blackout for nearly 3 weeks before it made headlines here in the US and they changed the narrative when reporting because they couldn't simply ignore it anymore.
Yellow vests are actually a grass roots movement spreading across many countries about inequality, the elites are getting richer while everyone else suffers and the people are finally sick of it over there.
Not only are they already taxed to death at close to 45%, now they want them to pay more for things like climate change!?!?! Meanwhile the elites are getting richer and richer and bigger and bigger tax breaks while breaking every law on the books and never getting punished. The people have finally had enough.
This yellow vest movement is spreading like wildfire across a lot of countries and now it's spilling over to the eu with brexit getting destroyed by elites and shoving down the throats of the citizens.. Telling them (and i quote) "This is the best deal you are going to get on brexit so you better take it!"
If you want to know a lot more about these protests check out alt media news stations, they are covering it heavily.
As I mentioned @moderndayhippie
I read a comment on one video on youtube it was made from a French little old lady who was to old to go out and protest but she was like full on "cray-cray" and was talking about putting this Macron in the guillotine... Then she also wrote that she was against the violence, in the same comment... =)
When the middle-class unite and do something like this, Left? Right? Immigrant? French? who cares it's just "Hey Ho Let's Go" to quote the Ramones...
The politicians actually get really scared of the middle-class, they can't just get away with anything either, if this was a just bunch of Leftwing-Feminists or North-African street kids, this would be gone a long time ago...
The middle class has tremendous power they can read and write on social-media, they have kids, they have jobs and tremendous credibility, they are the real voters so to speak, making them mad is not so smart if you're a politician...
The reason I wrote about it, (I usually don't write about politics and riots, wars and such), but yeah there has been a "media-blackout" like @moderndayhippie said, and yes there is probably a lot more to the story then fuel-prices, but these type of grassroots-movements sometimes gets high-jacked by lunatics/infiltrators, who try to push their own extremist agenda into it so we will see, I hope that this doesn't happen... And that the French can fix all these problems in their country with out further bloodshed...
I absolutely agree with everything you say here, I was just trying to point out the fact that the mainstream media is trying to call it one thing when its actually something totally different, its a revolution! People are sick of macron and the globalist agenda and like you said when the people come together they scare the elites.. The people really do have all the power when they decide to use it in the correct manner.
For too long have the people been divided and hence controlled by the establishments/elites, now the people have had enough and its starting to catch on all across the world. I love seeing this! Power to the People. It is truly time for change. :D
I can't say that I love seeing this, but I think Macron should go back and work maybe for an investment bank or something, like he did before, and I hope France can find a leader that wants the country to function for everyone not only for the rich...
Thanks for your comments @moderndayhippie, you are a brave out-spoken person, I respect that.
And please check my new post on the subject it has more info and such...
Cheers!
/FF