Will the French government succeed in smearing the earnest, nonviolent people in the yellow vests elsewhere around the world? Doubtful But just about everyone with an agenda is trying to horn in. This includes climate campaigners who are trying to claim the Gilets Jaunes as their own. They’ve posed in yellow vests for the media during carefully staged climate events. Don’t buy it for a second.We spoke with a wide assortment of protesters and asked them point blank, What do you think about climate taxes? “They are BULL SHIT” is among the more genteel exclamations our question engendered. Here are the straight facts.
To repeat, the Gilets Jaunes represent a broad cross section of the French working and middle classes. They are butchers, bakers and automobile makers. They are the folks who grow the food, drive the trucks, build the buildings, police the cities, and fix what breaks. They are France. They are fed up.
Well worth the read.
I am so proud of those Yellow Vesters. Never having been a Francophhile as I remember WWII history too well, I have not been impressed since. However, this Yellow Vest group is doing very well. I wonder if we’d ever get enough middle class (do they exist anymore) Americans to do the same. (The american underclass seems to be doing quite well without any intervention...almost everything is free if theya are careful about not exploiting the gratuities. The fmiddle class, however, I bet they are a go-along to get-along group. However, some of us are old, and lots older, and we know there is no more screwing around time available. Protest now. Wear yellow vests, whatever. But tell our government we want Obmamcare to be abandoned so that we can get real insurance. And that is only one example of one problem.