Jean-Luc Mélenchon does not hide his pleasure. The uprisings in the United States, which occurred after the death of an African American man by a police officer, delighted him. "Hurray! The people of the United States are in turmoil, " wrote the leader of La France Insoumise, even as an introduction to an article on his blog. “The era of the people plays the bass drum in Washington and the citizen revolution is on the streets of New York. The yellow vest has entered the heart of the empire, "he says, referring to the social movement of" yellow vests "that occurred in France in the fall of 2018.
"It is not expensive paid for now"
"Here are millions of unemployed people, abandoned abandoned without access to collective networks without which life is impossible, humiliated all year round by racist cops, manipulated by politicians without conscience. They now form a volcano that has just erupted for the first time, " reports Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who predicts that " this is only the beginning of a story that will last " .
The former presidential candidate says he was in full "fun" when he discovered that the White House had died out in the face of the riots in Washington and that Donald Trump had entrenched himself in a bunker. "In turn: in the cellar!" The persecutor of peoples in the dark! It is not expensive to pay for now, ” he said.
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, these uprisings in the United States could well happen in France. He warns: "Save this as a long-standing observer opinion: everything that happens in the USA then arrives here in the decade that follows. Sometimes faster. Be it fashions, politics or social facts. The fine fabric that unites us is not only economic, military or whatever we want. It is continually fed by television series, cinema, narrative matrices, reference images. Whether we like it or not, whether we agree or not, it is a deeply rooted system effect , ”he said.
