Feel free to make your pagan astrological inferences about how Macron's birthday relates to his personality here.
The rest of the year and 2020
Unions have announced a very strange strategy: remain on strike, but no nationwide protests until January 9. If you aren't working and getting paid, why not at least enjoy some solidarity at a protest? A general strike works because it touches the profits of the 1%, so it will continue to work" but still, it's odd.
Of course, it's the small businessman who is less able to defray the costs of a general strike than a corporation, but what choice is left to the French public? A general strike which does not end is called "revolution".
The General Strike will thus certainly extend into 2020. Like the Yellow Vests its support is around 60%. Polls show those who oppose it are Macronistas and old people.
Macron's popularity plummeted, and never recovered in January 2018. That's when his first budget came into play, and seniors saw how his neoliberalism gutted them. To avoid repeating this political mistake, his pension "deform" is a version of the two-tier system used to sow inequality among the bailed-out US auto companies in 2008: only people born after 1975 (like me) will see their pensions reduced. Macron had originally wanted it to affect everyone born after 1963, and this is being dubbed a "concession" of his by the MSM. He is creating long-term generational conflict and disunity.
After the pension reform Macron will inflict the same radical rollback to the unemployment system, which will be nearly as contentious. France accepts far lower wages than in the Anglophone world because they have good pensions, unemployment, health care, etc. However, there is a belief among France's leadership that the French will accept losing all this, despite stagnant wages. 2019" that theory didn't work out so well for France's leadership.
So we can count on two things for France in 2020: more social unrest, and the courageous Yellow Vests.
Tough year, but first one that I've been here that there's a political force France can be proud of. Kudos to them.
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