Even though France is currently experiencing demonstrations and riots on a scale that hasn\u2019t been seen since at least the historic year of 1968, we\u2019ve heard relatively little about it from our media here at home.<\/p>\n
This should suffice to elicit some measure of curiosity from the skeptical.<\/p>\n
After all, over the last so many years, whenever France\u2019s North African and Middle Eastern Islamic immigrants would spend a few nights burning cars and attacking police, the media, and the cable news media specifically, would expend no small measure of their time treating viewers to footage of the mayhem.<\/p>\n
This is because such rioting served the left\u2019s agenda, a program that consists of the promotion of massive Third World immigration into the West and that relies upon a narrative featuring white oppressors and non-white victims.\u00a0 These<\/em> riots could readily be spun as the consequence of unconscionable material inequality, which in turn could be interpreted as the function of the \u201cracism\u201d of the white oppressors.<\/p>\n The latest riotous demonstrations, however, are anything but friendly to most of the media\u2019s ideology.<\/p>\n In fact, the causes for the sake of which hundreds of thousands<\/a><\/em> of folks throughout France have taken to the streets are all but antithetical<\/em> to those which are characteristically championed by the left.\u00a0 It is this that explains why the leftist media has spent precious little time attending to the demonstrations, and why what attention journalists and pundits have paid it have been accompanied by efforts to misrepresent it as something that it is not.<\/p>\n For starters, while it is true that demonstrators are indeed incensed over President Macron\u2019s proposed tax on fuel<\/a>, to know only this is to know next to nothing<\/a>.\u00a0 At the very most that anyone is justified in concluding is that this latest proposal of Macron\u2019s is nothing more or less than the proverbial straw that broke the camel\u2019s back.<\/p>\n The tax is especially burdensome because it adds to the exorbitant totality of taxes with which the French middle and lower classes have been saddled, taxes that are the lifeblood of an immense Welfare State, a socialist system from which significant numbers of migrants continue to benefit even as the quality of life of the indigenous French deteriorates.<\/p>\n There is another reason why this latest tax can\u2019t be viewed in isolation from the larger picture to which it belongs: The tax on fuel is of a piece with Macron\u2019s program to combat \u201cclimate change.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n By increasing the price of fuel, particularly diesel fuel, it is the objective of Macron\u2019s government\u2014as it is the objective of every \u201cGreen\u201d government everywhere\u2014to render it ever more difficult, ever more expensive, for average folks to drive their cars<\/a>.\u00a0 That the protestors recognize this is borne out by the fact that they call themselves the \u201cGilets Jaunes,\u201d or \u201cYellow Vests\u201d: French motorists are required by law to sport yellow vests while operating their vehicles.<\/p>\n But the fuel tax was merely the catalyst for the Yellow Vest demonstrations.\u00a0 Macron, the anti-Trump over whom the global media elites swooned not very long ago, has since agreed to drop the controversial tax hike. Yet the demonstrations have only grown, proving that the ever-expanding Yellow Vest phenomenon signifies much more than a single <\/em>tax.<\/p>\n In fact, among other things, the protesters are demanding \u201ca tax reduction<\/a>\u201d\u2014tax cuts<\/em>\u2014\u201cacross the board.\u201d<\/p>\n A \u201cclimate change\u201d agenda and the astronomical taxes on the working and middle classes that are required to implement it; a socialist-Welfare State (and the astronomical taxes on the working and middle classes that are required to implement it); and a system that encourages the inundation of a country with foreign peoples<\/a> who not only haven\u2019t an interest in assimilating to its traditions, but who seem to have contempt for them\u2014these and the political elites who advocate on behalf of these things are the objects against which the Yellow Vests have spent nearly the last month rebelling.<\/p>\n In other words, the causes favored by the Yellow Vests sound an awful lot like one and the same causes for the sake of which Deplorables elected Donald Trump to the presidency.<\/p>\n Indeed, there is scarcely an item on the Yellow Vests\u2019 latest list of demands<\/a> that Trump couldn\u2019t endorse.<\/p>\n Perhaps it is because of the sheer size of the protests that the left-leaning media here (and abroad) would prefer to either not talk about them or misrepresent the facts.\u00a0 Or, which I think is more likely, maybe it is because the demonstrations are a violent<\/em> response to essentially leftist, globalist policies that the left would prefer people not know about them.<\/p>\n For all of the left\u2019s hysterics over the allegedly rising tide of \u201cracism\u201d and \u201cwhite nationalism\u201d that the election of Donald Trump is supposed to have unleashed, leftists know that their political opponents haven\u2019t posed any physical threat to them. To put it simply, Republicans, conservatives, Deplorables\u2014whatever we choose to call them\u2014aren\u2019t known (so far) for instigating politically-oriented violence.<\/p>\n People who oppose Big Government\u2019s efforts to control its citizens via high taxes in the name of fighting \u201cclimate change\u201d while forcing those citizens to subsidize ungrateful, frequently hostile Third World immigrants by enlarging the Welfare-State don\u2019t typically riot, much less riot on the scale on which the Yellow Vests are rioting.<\/p>\n But the brute fact of the matter is that, while there are indeed leftist elements involved with the Yellow Vest demonstrations, rolling over France is a rebellion that is populist<\/em> and nationalist<\/em> in character.\u00a0 Macron\u2019s is the face of a leftist, globalist elite whose election was seen by his fellow supra-nationalists throughout the West as a welcome counter-response<\/a> to the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.<\/p>\n At the time of his election in 2017, the BBC <\/em>reported:<\/p>\n \u201cMost of those running the EU [European Union] were breathing a sigh of relief, given [the right-wing, immigration-hawk] Ms. [Marie] Le Pen\u2019s policies and last year\u2019s Brexit vote.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cEurpean Commision chief Jean-Claude Juncker tweeted, \u2018happy that the French chose a European future\u2019 while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Mr. Macron \u2018carries the hopes of millions of French people, and of many people in Germany and the whole of Europe.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Macron was the \u201cIt Kid,\u201d as far as the West\u2019s globalists were concerned. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Now, though, just a little more than a year after he was elected, his own people\u2014between 70% and 80% support the Yellow Vest rebellion\u2014want Macron gone.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t just the middle class bakers, farmers, blacksmiths, etc. who back the resistors. So too do many police officers.<\/p>\n The morale of the attendees at the United Nations Climate Conference, currently transpiring in Poland, has been dramatically undermined<\/a> by the Yellow Vest revolt.<\/p>\n The spirit of the Yellow Vests is now spreading across Europe: The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany<\/a>, and Sweden<\/a> are the most recent countries in which it\u2019s manifesting itself.<\/p>\n Will it spread to America? Time will tell.\u00a0 But those media and political elites in America who are intent upon treating their political opponents as subhuman \u201cdeplorables\u201d should pay meticulous attention to the events unfolding across the pond.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even though France is currently experiencing demonstrations and riots on a scale that hasn\u2019t been seen since at least the historic year of 1968, we\u2019ve heard relatively little about it from our media here at home. 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