{"id":2184,"date":"2018-12-09T17:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T17:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2018-12-09T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T17:42:17","slug":"viva-la-gilets-jaunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/viva-la-gilets-jaunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva la Gilets Jaunes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2185\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gilets-Jaunes.protest-Paris1.jpg?resize=525%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gilets-Jaunes.protest-Paris1.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gilets-Jaunes.protest-Paris1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Californians in November meekly went to the polls to shoot down an attempt to lower their gas taxes.\u00a0 Over the recent number of days, rural and blue-collar French hit the streets of Paris to riot against a 5% increase in taxes on gasoline prices already exceeding $6\/gal.\u00a0 The contrast is striking (no pun intended).<\/p>\n<p>Why the outburst in Paris?\u00a0 The citizens in the countryside and the blue-collar middle class are tired of shouldering the burden of the climate-change fixations of their urban and wealthier &#8220;betters&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;Climate change&#8221; is more than a scientific matter.\u00a0 It&#8217;s code for the fixers in the nomenklatura\/academy alliance, buttressed by the upscale elect and their fashionable beliefs, to manipulate the lives of those not so privileged.<\/p>\n<p>So, we get with the French a replay of 1789; while in California, docility.\u00a0 Interesting.\u00a0 Will the meek inherit the earth, or will it be adult firmness?\u00a0 My bet is on &#8220;meekness&#8221; till it becomes unbearable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2186\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gilets-Jaunes.mrz120618dAPR20181206044521.jpg?resize=525%2C381&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gilets-Jaunes.mrz120618dAPR20181206044521.jpg?w=631&amp;ssl=1 631w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gilets-Jaunes.mrz120618dAPR20181206044521.jpg?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Viva la gilets jaunes (yellow vests)! But put a hold on the violence.<\/p>\n<p>RogerG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians in November meekly went to the polls to shoot down an attempt to lower their gas taxes.\u00a0 Over the recent number of days, rural and blue-collar French hit the streets of Paris to riot against a 5% increase in taxes on gasoline prices already exceeding $6\/gal.\u00a0 The contrast is striking (no pun intended). Why &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/viva-la-gilets-jaunes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Viva la Gilets Jaunes!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18,19,35,28,22,24,27,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-environmentalism","category-fiscal-issues","category-foreign-relations","category-modern-politics","category-porgressivism","category-taxes","category-uncategorized","category-white-working-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hOz7-ze","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}