by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog
It’s a question which needs be asked, but we can’t wait for the French media to answer it because they have almost totally stopped reporting on the anti-government movement for several months.
The first poll on the Yellow Vests since late March (“!”, and then “?”) finally came out two weeks ago. It was so eagerly gobbled up by a French media hungry for objective knowledge on the Yellow Vests that as many as two media talked about it. I missed it because I have already wasted a minimum of 3 hours of my life doing fruitless Google news searches for “Yellow Vest poll”.
The headline of Ouest-France newspaper, by far the most read Francophone paper in the world, was typically “negative-no-matter-what”: “A majority of France have had enough of the Yellow Vests”.
That’s a pretty bold statement considering that this majority is just 52%, which must be within the poll’s margin of error.
The headline could have fairly been: “A majority of France still supports the Yellow Vests despite all the state repression and media negativity”. Considering what a historic anti-government movement this is – the French have just avoided a 9th consecutive austerity budget expressly because of the Yellow Vests – objective journalism would have prioritised the “support” angle and not the “oppose” angle.
More poll tidbits to munch on for those who care about public opinion (which means you are obviously not a Western politician):
Vesters are now openly opposed by retirees (63%), executives/management (61%) and technicians/professionals (58%). However, they are openly supported by workers (52%), rural citizens (47%), the National Front party (64%) and the (true, not far-) leftist Unsubmissive France party (80%). Per the pollers: “The Yellow Vests remain popular with those segments of the population which were at the origin of the movement.”
One final poll petit-four: 93% of those who support Macron’s party are against the Yellow Vests, while another recent poll showed that 98% of Macronistas think he is doing a good job. What this reminds us is that there is a hard-core Macronista base for whom he can absolutely do no wrong. I assumed such adoration was limited to 60+ year old single women dreaming of a winter-spring romance (an incredibly winter-spring romance), but it is a solid quarter of the population. This rate of genuine support is actually unchanged since the election in 2017: a quarter of France just adores this guy, no matter what, and apparently no amount of violence can change that.
Let’s get to the point of this column
One segment of society which does not support the Yellow Vests is the 20- and 30-something crowd.
This is based on my regular attendance at Yellow Vest demonstrations, and also many months of informally talking with this age group (of which I am quite nearly a part of). I’d like to pass on what I think are the reasons for their opposition:
- We must remember that the Yellow Vests are primarily a middle-aged phenomenon – the average of those marching is probably 50 years old. This age group is the one which is most motivated because they are nearing retirement and they see just how bad austerity will make things for them. This generation will not do anywhere as well as their parents, and they are rightfully upset – they really had no chance to “succeed”: they found jobs (or can’t find any job) which will provide the personal nest egg which is required in the Anglo-Saxon system, which is the system that neoliberal austerity seeks to disruptively impose on France. The main problem is that French wages have always been far lower, and taxes quite higher, than their Western counterparts because the deal was that they’d have low wages but a much better social safety net. This deal has been terminated during the Age of Austerity, and Macron’s absurd, inhuman “one-size-fits-all” pension reform is the coup de grâce. Therefore, this segment of society – not professional, working class, low savings, not university educated, not thrilled with their job but still as vital to the functioning of society as you or me – is leading the revolt because they know that if they don’t… they will be working their low-paying job until they are 64 or their knees give out (whichever comes first), and then have a pittance of a pension to boot.
- What about the young adult Parisians? Firstly, this is an old persons’ town – you have to have money to live within its highway walls. But are you talking about those who were raised in Paris? I guess you mainly referring to those who grew up in the rich Western areas – that place I go and look at like a tourist (seems nice over there), with all their fancy little kids and quiet and trees. People who grow up in these areas are rich – these are the very Macronista urbanites who are young, terrifying and want to eat their elders. They view Macron as their leader, God and role model. So young adult Parisians manning the barricades? Fuggetaboutit. This holds true for all of France’s cities.
- What about the working class adult urbanites? Like in my area? Do you mean the Chinese, the Hasidic or the Arabs? All of these worker bees crammed into small, noisy apartments were likely turned off by the immediate and totally false smear that the Yellow Vests were racist. Also, the working class is often quite busy working.
- What about the poor city suburbs, surely they are sympathetic? Indeed, the poor Muslim, Arab and Black areas are all totally sympathetic to the Vesters. However, they are not stupid – they know that if they go to the Vester demonstrations in any city the cops will absolutely, undoubtedly wage police brutality on them first. This truth is so very, very, very self-evident to Muslims and people of Color that we cannot even imagine that many of you cannot accept this, and we just turn and walk away when we start getting blamed for not leading the Yellow Vest charge. People from these areas have been totally marginalised… but when you need cannon fodder, then we get an engraved invitation? LOL, thanks, but no thanks. Nobody cares about the opinion of these areas/groups anyway, but I can report that the Vesters do indeed have their sincere moral support. Finally, Muslims and Blacks probably compose around 5-8% of France – if they did join en masse only 1 out of every 20 Vesters or so would be a non-White, anyway.
And here is the main reason why French Whites – who are the majority among the 20- and 30-somethings in France – do not support the Vesters.
- I was surprised at the immediate antipathy for the Yellow Vests among the young White French adults I talked with in Paris, but who are the young White French adults in Paris? These are the primarily the people from small towns who are creative types and who move to the urban areas in order to flee the small-town culture, people, mores and activities they found so very stifling. The Yellow Vests are a primarily rural movement, and – as I have described their primary social-class makeup – France’s young urbanites seem to view the Vesters as the older classmates/bullies who made fun of them for being arty and weird and urbanite-aping back in their small town – many 30-somethings in Paris moved expressly to get away from these types! Therefore, it is unthinkable for them to side with the Yellow Vests, and after only the very first couple of demonstrations Parisian young adults seemingly all turned against the Yellow Vests, in my experience. These Parisian young adults see a faded, generic, poorly drawn forearm tattoo on many a Vester, and then they look at their own fancy tattoo (a Chinese character, a magic symbol, or some emblem of personal motivation or social defiance) and they think: “To hell with those White Trash – I never got invited to their parties and I want to lead a different lifestyle.”
So there you have it in a nutshell. Many French people actually made the move to the big city from the small town because they fundamentally resent the people who primarily compose the Yellow Vests.
There are other reasons:
- Paris attracts young adults from all over the world – where are they? The Western expatriates living in France feel similarly or even more hostile than their French counterparts, in my experience. Many absurdly view Yellow Vests as outright reactionaries, mainly because they have absolutely no idea what the hell they are talking about when it comes to “French culture + class struggle”. These Western White expats simplistically view Vesters as extensions of their own “Brexiteers”, “basket of deplorable American rednecks”, etc., and do not feel the need to dig any deeper than such a superficial comparison – many of these immigrants would have a hard time understanding even if they tried, such is their unfamiliarity with a class lens. Bottom line: they are not about to stop the “Western expat party” and get tear gassed for any Yellow Vest, that is certain.
- France, contrary to Anglophone media claims, is not a socialist country: aristocratic snobbery permeates and runs amok in the culture here as only it can on the Old Continent. It’s worse in Paris, but “I reject you first” is the initial war a French person declares upon meeting someone. The young adult urbanites in France have not at all been inculcated with class warfare and class solidarity, but identity politics: they identify with their fellow “bobos” (bourgeois bohemians), hipsters, artists and pretty young people. Have a shoulder tattoo I can’t see and not a wrist tattoo? Not cool enough. Next please. Swipe left. Je m’en fous.
- France was an individualist country even before the rise of neoliberalism, I imagine, but rapacious neoliberalism surely leads to a fundamental lack of sympathy: Young urbanites here simply cannot imagine – nor do they try to – the grim future which 50-year old Yellow Vesters know to be a rapidly encroaching fact.
- Furthermore, young people are dumb, (If you were paying me for this I’d look it up and provide the link but you’ll have to just take my word for it): I read a recent poll which said that something like 10% of young French people think Macron’s radical reforms will not actually reduce their own pensions, LOL! Sure… you’ll be the one who is special. Vesters are old enough to know better to get involved with this movement.
Given all these facts, we must realise that these urbanites want revenge on the class which primarily composes the Vesters – they don’t want to see them win, and they have repeatedly told me they don’t want them marching anymore in their hipster paradise areas of Paris.
I use the strong word “revenge” because I have found this to be a hugely important motivator in Western capitalist society. These young (smug, stupid, classist, fake-leftist/rabid neoliberal) anti-Yellow Vesters want not only a huge chunk of the pie, but they also to show all the people they left behind what a big shot they lost.
This is not hyperbole – this is what “competition” truly is. Western society (being anti-socialist and rabidly individualist) is fundamentally predicted on competition, and thus these types of feelings can be found plastered on billboards as a form of encouragement.
Finally, it is not “cool” to be a Vester in the French mainstream, and 20- and 30-somethings in the West prize “cool” above all. If you think famous actors, musicians, artists, thinkers, ballplayers, etc. are showing up/have ever showed up to Yellow Vest demonstrations… you must think these people don’t fear losing their social status more than anything – then they would have to get a real job.
“But Ramin,” you object, “how can cool people not be at the Yellow Vest demonstrations when YOU are there?”
Thank you. It seems paradoxical, indeed, but there’s an easy explanation: I turn 42 next week.
Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for PressTV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. He is the author of “I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China”.
Thanks Ramon! Great post!
Thank you again Ramin; It is always interesting to be able to put some flesh and bones around my ongoing attempts to understand the meaning of a remark that the American Author Norman Mailer made about the French;
That being; “The French are alienated beyond alienation.” I am getting a better picture of Mailer’s point from this post. Makes me glad to be British, or more accurately Kiwi. I once met a French girl in Vermont and asked her what made her come to America. She answered; “To get away from French men.” Now I understand Macron better. He fits right into the picture you paint, and it is easy see how a society of people like this could be such easy prey for Zionist tribe manipulation and control. Of course I am sure the perfidious influence of the Catholic Church has nothing at all to answer for here.
The situation is totaly different in cities in the province,even big ones like Bordeaux,Toulouse,Lille,Marseille,Nantes,Rouen not to forget medium and small sizes cities.
Bordeaux and Toulouse are at the top 2,very large crowds and both are bourgeois bobo cities,and lot of young show up at ‘actes’.
Paris is not France anymore like London is not the UK or even Moscow Russia.People say the unemployment rate is ‘high'(10%)ok but it also means that…90% have a job.You don’t make a revolution with that %.
YV 2018/2019 is the first wave,more will follow probably more violent and those who stay home today will regret their non participation to YV 1.0
MMG,
I can’t say that I have ever covered a Yellow Vest march in any major city besides Paris, but are those young people protesting in Lille, Nantes, etc. actually from those cities, or are they often from small towns around those cities? Given the leftist culture that is exceptionally strong in southwestern France I wouldn’t be surprised if Bordeaux and Toulouse do have many young urbanites, but I wonder about elsewhere. Paris is indeed different – higher rate of young immigrants who won’t get involved, higher rate of ultra-creative “Vesters ruined my high school experience” types, more banlieuesards – but is the part that very much different from the whole?
As far as the official unemployment rate (8.5%), most people say you must triple the government number to get the real figure. Can you make a revolution with 25%? The Macronistas are trying! Smart French cops have told me that they’d need millions in the streets before they’d give up (definitely need many more than who will show up tomorrow)… thus the 6 months of intensified state repression.
Ramin, you make interesting points and accurate observations. I do believe you are being unfair to the 20-30 age group: Within this 20-30 age group are also many offspring of the YVs who are very concerned about the situation in France, and don’t particularly enjoy seeing their elderly parents being gassed & beaten, and then insulted by Macron.
I am not sure the obnoxious, obtuse, lefty-liberal “woke” millenial who lives in Paris which you describe very well is a representative of this age group across France. I also believe they represent a younger group perhaps 17 – 22…their “wokeness” and liberalism wears off pretty quickly once they graduate from university and realise the cold- hard realities of looking for a job.
So they actually become woke after leaving university.
Yes, haha brilliant!
Yes, they become woke as opposed to “woke”…
Ramin, with respect, screw ‘competition’ and screw ‘Neoliberalism’. Most telling that 20 to 30 year olds are the ones who look down on the Gilets Jaunes, and are most opposed to them.
These ‘hipsters’ have been completely imbued with the toxic individualistic notions of Neoliberalism, right from childhood.
They are fully drunk on Identity Politics, which jettisons all notions of Class; which goes hand in hand with Neoliberalism.
I’m 57, and sell a homeless street magazine to survive. The people who show me the most contempt, who almost all, refuse to even say hello, who never buy a mag are…. The Hipsters. Those under 35. How long has the dogma of Neoliberalism been around in the West? I’ve also given up even looking for a paid job. Sort of like your fruitless Google search. Cheers
I’m 28, I dont pays much attention to them.
”So there you have it in a nutshell. Many French people actually made the move to the big city from the small town because they fundamentally resent the people who primarily compose the Yellow Vests.”
Haha, sweet irony indeed!
I absolutely believe Ramin is 100% on point about these infantile, arrogant bobo’s. And It makes me convinced that, if anything, Bernard-Henri Lévy is their Grand Old Man. He dismissed the Yellow Vests as a bunch of naff, coarse, and ill-mannered slobs. Should resonate well with your average French hipster.
Nussiminen: Bernard- Henri Levy may be their ‘grand old man’ however I’d posit Greta Thunberg is their current heroine; for the next few months at least until they get bored, and the next fad kicks in.
I experience their arrogance and contempt for the ‘riff raff’ every day, and ironically, I’m wearing a yellow vest also! Bit off topic, but Wrong Kind Of Green website, lenghty exposé by Cory Morningstar called ‘The Manufacturing Of Greta Thunberg – For Consent’, blows the lid on the whole Greta phenomenon. **** Hipsters btw.
from the first 3 paragraphs – these stats are sadly Euro-typical. Germany also supports the government that supports the US Hegemony of White European descent.
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its so true what you say Ramin…about young people – (also African-Arab migrants) coming to the big cities with selfish hopes of enrichment.
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I suppose we could imagine all the big cities of the world – on another planet – and all the wildlife and good sweet farm animals and good strong farming folks and wildlife lovers – staying here…!! How about that ?
Yellow vests would still be here.
Wow! Very good analysis, description–clear without ideological framing every few sentences…and the bitter truth shines through, old man of 42! ( joking, kindly..surely!) I am 72 and the heart ache just gets harder to bear. What ever happened to the young generation that had an idealistic heart but then only as they aged, sold out bit by bit.
It seems as if their symbol of cool is the snarling autistic faux-girl child with braids leading the pack against humankind with nary a word about people dying in Yemen due to a voracious, polluting Western war machine. Surely there is a Yemini endangered Gazelle species which might rend her heart?
Stop the war in Yemen—Save the Gazelle!!! ( sorry, if I seem flippant)
It reminds me of Gore Vidal’s observation that the Right’s, the neo-liberal Right in particular, motto is, ‘It is not enough to succeed-others must fail’. It is an expression of not just inter-generational hatred and class hatred, but that generalised Rightist misanthropy where all others are, at best, competition to be defeated, and humiliated if possible (that feeds their egos), or, more often, enemies to be crushed without mercy. As the economy implodes and the ecological Holocaust deepens rapidly, these swine will turn very, very, nassty.
Here’s something you might want to consider in your ageist analysis…
The Seattle Washington experience:
“Many people born into the postwar decades of the last century developed a sense of living in a world defined by a set of rules and expectations, a sense of what one owes and is owed by society. You got a job (or got married), worked hard, bought a house and a car or two, abided by the law, saved money, put your kids through college, and after 35 years or so you were free to enjoy a comfortable retirement. The middle-class American Dream, if you like. Not a transcendent existence, maybe, but one that has its rewards.
To call this a social contract would be to misrepresent the way this state of affairs came about — the imperialism and the wars, the class struggle, the racial oppression — and also to ignore that this arrangement was available only to a relatively privileged and mostly white part of the population. Still, for the many who enjoyed this life, it must have been possible to experience it as a kind of social contract, with all the solidity and sense of deserving that implies. It must have seemed eternal, immutable. But it wasn’t. In retrospect it was an anomaly, a temporary and tenuous détente. We don’t live in that world anymore.
Over the past 50 years that social contract, such as it was, has been eroded: stagnating wages and casualized labor, cuts to social welfare programs, aggressive consumerism, weakening social bonds, overmedication and self-medication — all now exacerbated in cities like Seattle by soaring housing costs. As the average person’s economic existence becomes less secure, and their emotional existence more fragile, people are less able to help each other. The homelessness crisis is the most visible manifestation of this deeper dysfunction, the devastating convergence of all of these trends. The tent pitched in the greenway and the woman shooting up on the sidewalk are only the tip of an iceberg of social catastrophe, intruding into public space in a manner impossible to ignore.
Millennials tend to feel at home with the mass of ice lurking below the surface, because it explains our lives. When you grow up in the shadow of environmental disaster, enter adulthood with precarious job prospects, and never quite form expectations of stability or security, the notion that a fundamental restructuring of society is in order doesn’t feel all that radical. From this vantage point, homelessness may be heartbreaking, but it’s not confusing. A growing class of economic refugees reduced to the indignity of performing basic bodily functions — sleeping, washing, excreting — in public and amid obscene wealth? Yeah, that’ll happen. And it’ll probably get worse before we can make it better.
But for the social contract generation, it’s different.” https://crosscut.com/2019/09/adrift-and-afraid-seattles-outraged-nimby-needs-someone-blame
Thank you, Ramin, for really speaking to my questions at the end of your last article.
I’m also still curious to hear your thoughts about the following questions:
Why is it that “the only TV media openly covering the Yellow Vests remains Iran”?
Why are French media workers AWOL in covering these protests?
I would love to hear Mr. Mazahari’s answer, but I suspect that it will be that ‘media workers’ cover the stories that their editors assign them to cover. The boss expect you to come back with the story that they assigned you to cover. If, a ‘media worker’ uses their own time to cover a story the editor doesn’t want, then the story gets spiked and doesn’t run. And if a media worker does this too many times, the Editors and Publishers put them on the list of ‘one of those people’ and any hope of raises, promotions or avoiding being laid off disappears. At least that’s how it appears to work in America. Basically, anyone who’s not The Boss has to do what the bosses tell them to do.
Yes, this is very much my impression too, but still I’d like to hear Ramin’s take on it.
Besides Ramin there are several alternative media channels that do cover the Yellow Vests quite well, but they’re not MSM. Here some examples;
The Media for All : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZpkceMGO0 (Vincent Lapierre)
Le Media : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ShmP7heXI
QG TV : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJc30jYzM0
TV Liberté : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5TbuUqitAE
RT France : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiatHNrusnA
AB7 Media : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJZVrpJnSYY
UPR TV : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJHT389CSoU
Enjoy!
Hi Mojo,
Thank you for the questions.
I’m always happy to find out what people want to know – it’s rather my job. Can’t answer them all, but the lack of young people is a big issue, indeed.
RT is also always there openly. It’s an interesting topic – I guess I haven’t explained it because I don’t want to seem to be tooting Iran’s horn. I think I’ve brought up the lack of French media coverage many times, which is the main story, but I’ll try and write something up on it one of these days. Thanks again
Divide and Conquer.
Alain Soral Sentenced to 2 Years Jail for Sharing “Gilets-Jaunes” Anti-Rothschild Rap Video
http://www.unz.com/gdurocher/alain-soral-sentenced-to-2-years-jail-for-sharing-gilets-jaunes-anti-rothschild-rap-video/
The French civic-nationalist and anti-Zionist intellectual Alain Soral was sentenced to two years prison last week for sharing a rap video entitled “Gilets-Jaunes.”
The music clip (watch it while you still can) is typical of the Yellow Vests in denouncing French media, political, and financial elites, and making a plea for direct democracy, notably the famous proposed Citizen’s Initiative Referendum (Référendum d’Initiative Populaire or RIC).
The video also argues for the abrogation of the banking law of June 1973 – known as the “Pompidou-Rothschild Act,” after the then French president and the investment bank he used to work for. Critics claim the law has reduced France to debt slavery by making her dependent on financial markets for loans rather than self-finance through the national bank.
The video also features a pyre where various figures are symbolically burned: President Emmanuel Macron, various media (TF1, Le Monde, BFMTV . . .), the Rothschild bank, and, most problematically, powerful elite Jews (Jacques Attali, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Patrick Drahi).
The rapper points out: “And if we talk about the media and Macron, we’ll have to talk about Drahi. His bank account is in Israel and he pays no taxes here.” Drahi, a Franco-Israeli-Portuguese oligarch born in Morocco and residing in Switzerland, has bought up large swathes of French media in recent years.
In case the denunciation of Jewish-globalist and Jewish-Zionist power elites in the financial and media spheres were not explicit enough, the video also states: “We’re not talking about a so-called oppressed minority. We’re talking about the deliberately neglected majority [of workers, farmers, and pensioners] . . . France has decided to free itself from the Rothschilds.”
As the words “so-called oppressed minority” are uttered, images are flashed of the annual dinner of the CRIF – the influential official French Jewish lobbying organization – an event where the crème de la crème of the French politico-media elite regularly come to genuflect.
The rapper lauds the “prolo patriotes” (patriotic workers) who are rising up and denounces the oligarchic “parasites” who are enriching themselves all the while demanding austerity from the masses. The song concludes: “The French are fed up with these parasites. The French are fed up, it ain’t racist. National uprising!” The author is a certain “Rude Goy.”
There are various pro-Arab and pro-Muslim symbols included. Drahi is mentioned while a pro-Palestine hoody is flashed. The rapper wears a fashionable keffiyeh. As a mainstream journalist anxiously warns that the French State is bordering on collapse in the face of the protesters, the rapper answers: “Inshallah” (God willing in Arabic).
The video then artfully interweaves mainstream yellow-vest concerns about French democracy’s subversion by high finance with a denunciation of the specific role of Jewish elite power in this process. There is no blanket anti-Semitism or attack on day-to-day Jews.
The images of Jewish oligarchs and intellectuals being symbolically burned – along side mainstream media and the French president, mind you – angered a certain number of Jewish activist and (mostly Jewish-run) “anti-racist” organizations. I imagine these images felt downright Auschwitzian to them.
The groups sued Soral for “granting enormous visibility to this video by publishing it on his website” and thus promoting the anti-Semitic theory of a “Jewish conspiracy.”
Note Soral did not create the video: he merely shared it on his website, as he did innumerable other yellow-vest videos. One wonders if linking to the video is also considered a criminal act. Probably not, or only if your name is Alain Soral. This tells you something about the legal arbitrariness of these censorious laws and liberticidal ethnic lobbies [….]
http://www.unz.com/gdurocher/alain-soral-sentenced-to-2-years-jail-for-sharing-gilets-jaunes-anti-rothschild-rap-video/
great comment – thanks so much for info
Ramin wrote:
“The young adult urbanites in France have not at all been inculcated with class warfare and class solidarity, but identity politics: they identify with their fellow “bobos” (bourgeois bohemians), hipsters, artists and pretty young people. Have a shoulder tattoo I can’t see and not a wrist tattoo? Not cool enough. Next please. Swipe left. Je m’en fous.”
I respond:
Just wondering aloud, but wasn’t the urge to be “different” in a “hip” sort of way always a British trait?
https://www.anglophilesunited.com/brit-blog-today/the-british-eccentric
Is the rest of the world finally catching up?
The Truth about Hipsters
by Paul Joseph Watson
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pKBRx2UYaxM/
I sincerely appreciate Ramin’s reporting on the Vesters. It is a bit Paris centered, but that seems to be unavoidable considering that that’s where the author is based. The problem is that this also influences Ramin’s analysis of ‘young urbanites unwilling to side’ with the Vesters. I follow the Vesters via a huge number of Twitter accounts from all over France and by doing so I get a different picture of the crowds manifesting in places like Rennes (Bretagne), Nantes (Vendee), Toulouse (Occitanië), or Strassbourg (Loraine), all of these places with a history of revolt against Paris power. The hypothesis of the ‘upstart urbanite Parisien taking revenge on his rural procastinators’ does not apply there, even when it is plausible explanation for the situation in Paris.
Besides I don’t think it is a matter of ‘siding’ or ‘not siding’ with the Vesters. It is a matter of actively fighting them. I have seen dozens of cell phone films showing masked and armed youngsters (including females) in their 20’s and 30’s joining the policy in beating up the Vesters, regardless of age or gender. Mercenairies.
To understand this one should look at the organisation of the EMperor-imposter (LREM). ‘Adherents’ of LREM are organised in thousands of ‘local committees’ (comites locals) comparable to the ‘gau’ committees of the Nazi’s. Have a look a this sample list (# 77) of these committees on the LREM website. I stopped counting at 2310 committees… There are many more. The numbers of ‘adherents’ per committee vary between 25 – 150. Adherents join regular events and meetings on an almost weekly basis… for indoctrination, mobilisation and deployment against the Vesters, or any other group menacing the Movement of their EMperor.
https://en-marche.fr/tous-les-comites/77
https://en-marche.fr/evenements