So the "Yellow jacket" protests are continuing in France, even though President Emmanuel Macron postponed the new fuel tax that ostensibly set them off.
Speaking of the Internet, on December 6, Buzzfeed argued, "The yellow jackets are a beast born almost entirely from Facebook." That is, Mark Zuckerberg's company is the problem.
As the article asserts, "The yellow jackets communicate almost entirely on small, decentralized Facebook pages."
The yellow jackets-admittedly an amorphous group-seem to have rejected Macron's bid for reconciliation.
In the meantime, as yellow jacket-ish protests spread to Brussels and Amsterdam, we might view these disturbances as all being connected to the peaceful populist wave that has washed over Europe in recent years, from Britain to Italy to Austria to Hungary to Sweden.
Perhaps we should consider the tumult in France as just a window into the nature-and fate-of the European Union.
So as with the fate of Macron's government in France, the future of the EU might well depend on the willingness of its rulers to get tough-that is, converting the democracy deficit into an outright tyranny surplus.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-yellow-jackets-versus-the-european-empire/
Speaking of the Internet, on December 6, Buzzfeed argued, "The yellow jackets are a beast born almost entirely from Facebook." That is, Mark Zuckerberg's company is the problem.
As the article asserts, "The yellow jackets communicate almost entirely on small, decentralized Facebook pages."
The yellow jackets-admittedly an amorphous group-seem to have rejected Macron's bid for reconciliation.
In the meantime, as yellow jacket-ish protests spread to Brussels and Amsterdam, we might view these disturbances as all being connected to the peaceful populist wave that has washed over Europe in recent years, from Britain to Italy to Austria to Hungary to Sweden.
Perhaps we should consider the tumult in France as just a window into the nature-and fate-of the European Union.
So as with the fate of Macron's government in France, the future of the EU might well depend on the willingness of its rulers to get tough-that is, converting the democracy deficit into an outright tyranny surplus.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-yellow-jackets-versus-the-european-empire/
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