Protests increase again. It has become clear the Yellow Vests are not going away, so the MSM grapples with trying to describe their class-based demands without violating their blacklist of the word "class".
I laid it all out here: The Yellow Vests are calling for the world's third Cultural Revolution, after China and Iran.
It's not bias or exaggeration: They want to halt the functioning of normal society to have a serious, long, fruitful discussion about France's role in the euro, the EU, NATO, Franà §afrique, the 5th Republic itself, austerity policies, foreign policy, environmental policies, housing, education, health care, pensions, etc. That link is Part 8 of an 8-part series I wrote this year to demystify the two state-sponsored Cultural Revolutions simply because the parallels between them and the Yellow Vests were so obvious.
Yellow Vests sure didn't have state sponsorship, though. However, they did have a 60% approval rating at this time.
Jan 26 - French cops equipped with body cameras for first time
Absolutely nothing has come of this early demand aimed at reducing police brutality.
By the end of 2019 France has prosecuted just two cops for police brutality against the Yellow Vests. So how can we even know what has been recorded, when the cameras were even turned on, that is?
Jan 27 - Reactionary 'Red Scarves' demand Yellow Vests stop bothering the establishment
Finally, a demonstration which France's media feels safe enough to cover!
The one and only such demonstration of this pathetic group. However, never has such a short-lived social movement received such fawning and massive political coverage. Where are the Red Scarves now - nowhere? Or rather: about to annoy the hell out of their family at Christmas.
Just prior to the movement a minister said that if 10,000 people showed up, then that would constitute a success and be a signal that the Yellow Vests have to stop: the Interior Ministry claimed 10,500 people showed up.
Many in the media would never once question the ministry's figures on the Yellow Vest turnout despite their obvious self-interest to keep the numbers low, yet reported 10,500 despite the real-time indication over an inaccuracy which was widely obvious.
Feb 5 - Yellow Vests and unions march together for first time
Initially, a union member carrying his union insignia was as unwelcome as member of Macron's political party. The Yellow Vests' popularity and respect is largely based on their open rejection for not just mainstream politics and the traditional modes of French political culture, but also France's idea that unions should lead socioeconomic protests. The Western "independent" union model, is perfectly calibrated to be "divided and conquered", which has been the case in France since 2010, certainly; when unions "win", the theory is that everyone else should just hope that their gains "trickle down" to the 90% of French workers who aren't unionized.
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