Today
it was the 13th Saturday with Yellow Vest demonstrators in Paris and
other French cities.
It’s
obvious the movement is still able to gather a good number of people. We can
say so even if the total number of protesters today was smaller than in past
weeks. The variety of reasons that bring the activists to the streets explains
the numbers.
This
is not a rally of dunces, as some would like us to see it. There are extremists
in the ranks – militants from the far-right and from the far-left. They are
trying to ride the social malaise. And they feel happy when they see cars
burning or the State authority being challenged. But the majority of those on
the streets is composed of people that face daily hardships and want to benefit
from a safer economic environment. They are simple people, and they raise the
key question about how to organise the society in developed nations at a time
of big digital transformations, combined with international economic
competition and the emergence of masses of skilled workers in other parts of
the world.
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