[lawnguy]

Because history indicates that the French can go a wee bit "over the top" when implementing social change.

The situation is ripe for a thuggish dictator type to step in and start busting a few skulls.

This is where this type of behavior is leading, because what a thuggish dictator needs to survive is a silent majority of the population that is frightended by this type of behavior, but scared to speak out.

I have to think that millions of French citizens are sitting in their homes, quietly despairing over where their country is headed.

Enter a charismatic hard ass, somewhere under the political radar.

[LowCountryJoe]

That's a very good insight. All the right rhetoric and charm and then, wham-o, gradual police state and loss of freedoms. And then the new dissenter might just see the return of an old friend - the