[RoosterRedux]

I don't think folks riot over general concepts like socialism or even globalism. I think they riot over the little things in their lives that piss them off (like rising gas/diesel prices) and taxes in general. Adding to that is a free-floating anger that they (the rioters) may not even be able to identify.

The latter may be due in a vague way to the arrogance of the government in general or a sense of helplessness due to the greater influence of the EU.

Some of the rural French may have thought that Macron's recent call for an EU army was so he had faceless troops that he could muster against rural Frenchmen...to enforce taxes and regulations and to prevent them from rioting in the first place.

[central_va]

I don't think folks riot over general concepts like socialism or even globalism. I think they riot over the little things in their lives that piss them off (like rising gas/diesel prices) and taxes in general. Adding to that is a free-floating anger that they (the rioters) may not even be able to identify.

I think you are so wrong.