To be fair, the NY Times has covered this in detail, including a list of many reasons for the protests. Sadly, what's happening in France is happening everywhere: governments keep passing laws that favor the ultra wealthy at the expense of most of the people. Here in the US it is even worse, because those same governments and many conservative news outlets have successfully blame-shifted income-inequality to the poor and illegal immigrants. They have also managed to convince a large proportion of the population that climate change is a hoax--another ploy to allow those who profit from pollution to continue to profit while robbing our children of their future. Of course, they do all of this in the name of "freedom" and "liberty," to fool people into supporting them. At least the French are protesting... here in the US the same citizens who have been hurt by these economic policies were bilked into voting for Trump and other Republicans who then proceeded to pass even more laws favoring the wealthy.

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