“The shrill polemics could not drown out another big news story: the growing unpopularity of Hollande and his government. One poll said 75 percent of voters doubt he can keep a New Year’s promise to turn around rising unemployment this year. …”
Huh. I seemed to remember people in France dancing and singing in the streets after Hollande was elected not so long ago. What happened? /s
Exactly. Just like in the US, people in France are looking for an easy answer that allows the Welfare State benefits to keep coming and have it all paid for by the "rich" and have it all somehow not be a drag on the economy. French citizens willingly fell for Socialist snake oil (just like US citizens just did) -- Hollande promised to get everything moving by asking the rich to pay their "fair share." People wanted to believe it. Now that taxing the s__t out of the rich hasn't worked to fix the economy, the people are upset again. What they are really upset at is reality -- that they have to grow up and stop expecting something for nothing or something paid for by someone else.