For starters, it's not like rioting in France began in the 1980's. The Réveillon Riots about runaway inflation was before even Brandon was born (1780's).
And, well, let's be honest about Catholicism's decline in France. Yes, the white folk French are probably becoming more secular, but the mass invading rapefugees are more muslim than a Hillary culture advisor.
The french revolution was virulently anti-Christian.
And "decadent, depraved, hedonistic, left wing" is pretty much a description of france for the past 400 years.
Remember how they were whining at us about how we were so uptight about married politicians cheating and should just accept that everyone in government had a mistress or three?