Certainly, democracy is the freedom to think, to express oneself, and to demonstrate.
Yes, to demonstrate precisely, a notion that seems completely foreign to the “yellow vests” when you see the blockades first, then this kind of insurrection on Saturday in Paris, the chaos in many provincial cities.
Vandalism, violence, many injured, looting, insults to the symbols of the Nation… is this “demonstrating”? Were only the rioters in action, or did others lend them support?
And to continue, every day the yellow vests occupy the media space: heading to Paris or not, a revolt or a revolution, recoveries of all kinds… from the extreme left to the extreme right: Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Laurent Wauquiez, even François Hollande, flaunt themselves alongside the blockers to support them, stoke the embers before shifting the blame for the escalation onto the government. No voice rises to fundamentally contradict the “yellow vests” movement. Surprising?
Upon closer inspection, even though this movement is based only on a jumble of demands ranging from stopping speed radars at 80 km/h to increases in social charges and gasoline or diesel, it should not be minimized in terms of what is happening before us.
If the Yellow Vests movement stands out from all these anti-fiscal mobilizations by its spontaneous nature, outside any organizations, the reactions of law enforcement, the government’s openings to dialogue do not seem to unsettle the movement’s proponents.
If the vitality of the establishment of this movement is due to the virality of calls through social networks, one must remain cautious but attentive to understand the true reasons behind it.
A “Gallic autumn”? Asterix village version… ready to fight whatever the reasons?
If the theme of the small against the big is the common thread of the spontaneous participation of the “yellow vests” (the agitators and activists of the extreme right and extreme left have others), if some leaders are already envisioning a political future for themselves (José Bové, François Ruffin and others are there to demonstrate that appetite increases with eating), history is full of cases of exploitation of the good common people and their sentiments.
We know well that where there are puppets, there are also puppeteers who dictate the music and pull the strings.
Are not Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon calling for the dissolution of the National Assembly?
