Violence.
Violence.
The ongoing protests in France ramped up Tuesday. Thousands of people took to the streets, the Eiffel Tower was closed, and the French government warned that the protesters wanted “to destroy, to injure and to kill.” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin took the unprecedented step of putting 13,000 officers in place to face the protesters, with almost half in Paris alone. This has been going on for almost two weeks now, and shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. Some Americans have laughed at the French, because the source of the nationwide rage is President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. All the unrest over having to work longer? How quintessentially French. But what the French protests really show is the failure of the welfare state. It’s a lesson that Americans would do well to learn.
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The ongoing protests in France ramped up Tuesday. Thousands of people took to the streets, the Eiffel Tower was closed, and the French government warned that the protesters wanted “to destroy, to injure and to kill.” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin took the unprecedented step of putting 13,000 officers in place to face the protesters, with almost half in Paris alone. This has been going on for almost two weeks now, and shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. Some Americans have laughed at the French, because the source of the nationwide rage is President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. All the unrest over having to work longer? How quintessentially French. ***But what the French protests really show is the failure of the welfare state. It’s a lesson that Americans would do well to learn.***
(Emphasis mine.)
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