They call themselves the “Yellow Jackets” (or “Yellow Vests”) for the
fluorescent road safety vests all French motorists are required to have
in their cars and which the demonstrators wear to protest the
government of Emmanuel Macron. Signs in the crowds reading “FREXIT” and
others complaining of high taxes and fuel prices are evidence that all
is not well in the “City of Lights.”
A small right-wing minority, the populist Yellow Jackets are fighting an uphill battle against a government and nation that is as far left and socialist as any in Europe. While opening their arms, borders, and social welfare services to unlimited numbers of Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East, France, like most of Europe, is struggling to take care of all them all.
Marine Le Pen, the right-wing candidate who opposed Macron in the last presidential election, but lost, is a populist in the Trump mold who advocates FREXIT, France’s departure from the European Union, and suspending immigration, as well as protecting the French people from the threat of “savage globalisation.”
The people of Paris have had enough of government oppression. Unable to survive on their wages, overburdened by taxes to pay for social welfare, and now with fuel prices leaving them unable to pay their bills, they are doing the only thing left they can do, protesting against their government.
While the Yellow Jackets insist that their protest is peaceful, their actions belie that. Peaceful protesters do not overturn cars and start fires in the street, nor do they destroy private and public property. It is, however, unlikely that they would get the government’s and media’s attention any other way.
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