Yellow
Vest’ Protests Spreading To Other Countries As Citizens Rise Up Against Corrupt
Government, by Washington Standard, 12/11/18.
Paris, France — A grassroots movement made up of citizens who
have become fed up with the political establishment in France has been growing
since early November and it has come to a head this month. The movement, known
as “gilets jaunes” or “yellow vests” began as an anti-tax protest but has
since merged folks from the left and the right into a much broader
anti-government movement. The movement has become so large that political
experts are now calling it a “new revolution.”
French citizens have used the yellow vests that their government
requires they carry in their vehicles as a symbol of this protest. As the
Guardian points out, unlike
previous French protest movements, it sprang up online through
petitions and was organized by ordinary working people posting videos on social media, without a set leader, trade
union or political party behind it. The protest
was so successful that last week, French Prime Minister Edouard
Philippe announced
a six-month suspension of the fuel tax which triggered the unrest.
The people flexed their power
and the people won—on this single issue. However, the people of France have
long been exploited by their corrupt rulers and this has caused the rise of
populism. Populist movements reject the left/right paradigm and don’t adhere to
any strict political ideologies that tow left or right lines.
Because populist
movements reject the left/right paradigm, they are far stronger as they bring
in people from all over the spectrum. It also makes them quite rare and what we
are witnessing with the yellow vest movement is approaching
historical levels of populism.
First of all, the fact that populist movements are
directed against the political elite as a whole, without making a distinction,
whether it is right or left-wing, is striking. This is the ‘uprising of the
periphery of society against its center’. In his famous work, the American
sociologist Christopher Lasch (1932–1994) designated the form of government
that prevails in modern Western society as the “elite revolution”.
When referencing the
‘Elite Revolution’, Dugin explains how those at the top of the power structure
tend to control this power through their immense will to rule. The result of
the elite revolution is far more destructive to culture and society than a
revolution of the masses because in the name of diversity, elites from all
groups seek this power and use it to oppress their own. ‘Do as your group
leaders tell you to do, or you are part of the problem.’
Accordingly, populism – including the populism of
the “yellow vests” – can be viewed as a retaliatory uprising of the people
against the elites, who have completely lost their connection with society.
The elites have built their own
world in which double standards, norms of political correctness, liberal
demagogy reign.
According to these “new elites”, the people and
society, in their current state, have no place in this world. Therefore, the
typical representative of the “new elite”, Hillary Clinton, upset by the
success of the right-wing populist Trump, openly insulted ordinary Americans –
as deplorables, which in meaning means “shameful.” “Deplorables” have chosen
Trump – not because they loved him, but to respond to the “globalist witch”
Clinton.
Macron is a
representative of the same type of “new elite”. It is curious that on the eve
of the elections the French newspaper ‘Libération’ published the headline
‘Faites ce que vous voulez, mais votez Macron ‘ (“Do what you want, but vote
for Macron”). This is an obvious paraphrase of Aleister Crowley, who proclaimed
himself in the 20th century as the Antichrist and
the Beast 666: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”. In other
words, obedient crowds should vote for Macron not for some rational reasons,
not because of his ideas and virtues, but simply because this is the imperative
law of the ruling elite. And the disregard of the elites towards the obedient,
slain masses is so open that they do not even bother to seduce them with
impracticable promises: “Vote for Macron, because this is an order and this is
not discussed.” Vote and then you are free. Otherwise you are deplorables. And
that’s all.
Do not misinterpret the above text as an endorsement of Trump or
any ideology for that matter as it is not. It is merely used to point out how
populist movements expand as more and more people get excluded from the
establishment and censored, shamed, and ridiculed into a corner for not toeing
the line of their oppressor class.
Now, we are witnessing the inevitable result of pushing people
into a corner by controlling everything they can and can’t say and taxing them
into oblivion while doing it. Although the yellow vests began in France, we are
now seeing reports of similar protests sparking up in other countries as well.
Demonstrations
have spread like wildfire from France into Belgium and the Netherlands as
hundreds of yellow-vested protesters are met by riot police.
As the
Times reports: Amid the tensions,
police personnel were forced to use water cannons and pepper spray in a bid to
disperse the demonstrators.
Protestors gathered in
Arts-Loi in Brussels and
staged a massive walkout towards Schuman Roundabout, home
to a number of European Union offices and towards the European Parliament, but
were stopped by the security forces. During the clashes, the agitators blocked arterial roads, threw
stun grenades and damaged traffic
signals and the environment. Over 100 people have been detained by the police so far.
They have demanded Belgian Prime
Minister Charles Michel to step down from his post.
In the cities of Amsterdam and
Rotterdam in the Netherlands, protestors staged a peaceful demonstration in
various parts, singing and handing flowers to the passers-by and asking them to
participate in the agitation,
according to local media reports. Security has been heightened in both the
countries as more protests are planned in the coming days.
TFTP has
also seen groups planning yellow vest protests in the United States. Message
boards, such as 4chan, have announced
protests on December 15th at 12:00 p.m. in Massachusetts, New York, and
California.
So long
as these movements remain peaceful, we have already seen the power they wield.
The yellow vests are reminding the world who has the real power, and the world
would do well to listen.
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