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Everyone Should Protest Like the French
Americans don't understand the significance of labor movements and corporate power.
We are so conditioned to obey our masters that we query France's behavior instead of asking why the French government passes unpopular policies. The democracy we cherish stipulates the majority rule, yet two-thirds of the population disapprove of President Macron's pension reform, and we scrutinize France's protests instead of Macron's undemocratic actions.
It's bizarre, but we don't stop there. Our backward or socially trained thoughts compel us to boast idiotic statements like the French have nothing to complain about. The government's slight pension adjustment from 62 to 64 years is lower than our full benefits retirement age of 67. Hurray?
Gloating about geriatric workers and longer working years is nothing to brag about, but we haven't figured out that US labor rights are among the worst globally, and we're the suckers. We shun and vilify strikes, claiming the workers' wages are nothing to moan about while ignoring the fat stacks that fill the shareholders' and corporate owners' pockets. It makes no sense.
French understand the ruling versus working class dynamics and the government's role in facilitating the wealthy capitalists' objectives. They maintain…
