The worlds media is asking what on earth are the "yellow vests" protesting about. They suggested it was a diesel tax, but postponement of that did not stop a thing.
The truth is the French are like every other sham-democracy, they are fed-up with everything, not a single thing, but everything.
The streets abandoned to people pushing drugs and idle professional beggars,
The streets given over to betting shops and charity shops and primark.
The people pushing drugs killing each other.
The people consuming drugs shoplifting, breaking into our homes, vandalising public and private property.
Our grandkids can't get into the schools their parents want because of immigration.
There are shortages of everything, from homes to healthcare, again because of a pressure of numbers.
The streets are unsweeped and our bins aren't emptied.
Our towns and cities have become ghettos - different ethicities living confrontational parallel lives.
House prices and rent increases because of pressure from increased numbers.
Lower wages and less jobs because of pressure from increased numbers.
Politicians who say they listen, but ignore what they hear.
Apparently, the immigrant communities living in the banlieues of french cities are not joining the yellow vest protests because they believe/fear the protests are essentially anti-immigrant. They are wrong, the protests are anti-immigration because immigration is adding to every single domestic problem that the politicians can't cure. The one thing they could cure easily, immigration, they ignore.
Take back control, don't cede control to the unaccountable and the elites. Allez les francais.
Other explanations are welcome.