Yes it’s true. France is arguably the most important country in the world right now yet, thanks to the global mainstream media cabal, most people don’t know it.
Oh yes, mass media consumers may have heard some passing words about a few thousand pesky protestors complaining about the Macron government raising the retirement age by two years.
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The angry hordes of disaffected French occupying the streets in the cities of France now number in the millions and the reasons for their anger are very different from what the corporate media would have you believe.
The French aren't burning down cities because Macron raised the retirement age. They aren't even protesting because Macron unilaterally passed this into law without first putting it to a vote in the parliament.
In case you haven't noticed there has been increasing unrest in the country for years for a number of reasons - unchecked immigration, unconstitutional medical mandates, out of control inflation, deteriorating infrastructure, poor working conditions, and increasing homelessness to name just a few.
The latest action on retirement age is just a straw that broke the camel's back.
So why should what’s happening in France be of any importance at all to us outside that country?
For exactly the same reason that France was at the epicentre of world events 234 years ago.
After more than two centuries and three decades, the French people are inconsolably pissed off at their rulers and, in vast numbers, they are visibly demonstrating that they’ve had enough. After 234 years, once again, revolution is in the air.
Once again, why is this important to us outside France?
For the simple reason that the French are showing the rest of us how to do it.
While we stage sporadic demonstrations in a few key cities on weekends, the French in huge numbers are at it day and night every day of the week throughout the whole country.
While our interest in battling the system wanes as we allow ourselves to get lied to by the mass media and shafted by our elected so-called representatives, day by day, month by month, year by year the French resistance to tyranny just grows and keeps getting stronger.
We grumble and get together with a few thousand like minded souls and take our children on a stroll through the streets on a Sunday afternoon waving flags, holding carefully crafted placards, and listening to half-hearted speakers with microphones on podiums.
Meanwhile, the French are having running battles with militarised police and fighting for their lives and the lives of their children and their children’s children to the stirring sounds of their inspirational national anthem.
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
Contre nous de la tyrannie,
L’étendard sanglant est levé, (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes!
Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny
Raises its bloody banner (repeat)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They’re coming right into your arms
To cut the throats of your sons, your companions!
This song is not an obsequious prayer for God to intervene on behalf of some king or queen or future ‘non-binary’ monarch.
La Marseillaise was born from the blood of the poor and working classes who refused to be turned into wretched slaves by an uncaring wealthy elass of tyrannical elites. It is the battle cry of the resistance. Give me liberty or give me death. When the French sing their anthem they mean it!
Now once again, the downtrodden and working classes are being threatened by a tyrannical elite who think they are unassailable. The masses see their quality of life being stolen away and diminished day by day while the champagne sipping elites grow ever wealthier as they fly around in their private jets.
The French, unlike the rest of western world, have not forgotten their history. The spirit that spawned the monumental revolution that began in 1789 is still alive and everyone outside of France who still values freedom should arise and take notice.
Like their historical forefathers of the Napoleonic era, the French have been forced to realise that there is no viable option to active resistance. They have come to understand that the elite class wants to kill French culture and the French people along with it. Their only choice is to fight or die.
The rest of the west remains for the most part still in a slumber, believing that somehow they can vote their way to a better life.
The good news is that the spirit of the French is catching and the rest of the word is waking up. As conditions worsen for the people of energy starved Europe, and as the elites attempt to tighten the screws, unnecessarily culling millions of animals and putting generational farmers out of business with ridiculous new regulations in the name of climate change, the people are starting to dig in their heels and say enough.
So why again is France the most important country in the world right now? France is the role model for the rest of us. If we value our freedom and lives of our children, we will emulate the French, get off our backsides and resist the tyrants who want to enslave and kill us. After all, our backs are to the sea so what choice do we really have?
As for Macron, while Paris is burning he can smugly stroll around events in Belgium with a swagger and smilingly wink at cameras but he would do well to read up on what happened to the ruling class in his country back in 1789.
Interesting summary of the French protests - however I found this a little confusing, Stan.
There seems to be a lot of action by both far-right and far-left groups stirring up misinformation and violence in France, mixed with legitimate concerns over pension age etc.
Is your argument: of course the French are upset - the elites are harming them by forcing acceptance of refugees, public health measures such as Covid lockdowns and bird flu culls, and climate change regulations - these are all causing them harm? And other countries should also be active against government over-reach?
I fear government under-reach in certain sectors is more harmful to the broader population here in Australia, particularly concerning redistribution of sovereign wealth; Labor has made no attempt to improve below-poverty line unemployment payments, there is very little tax on the multinational firms reaping billions from extractive industries here, and little attempt to address the core cause of inflation - excess corporate profit. [see https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/profits-drive-inflation-while-wages-lag-behind/102014162 ].