Multiculuralism, that pot has cracked. Failed model. You bring in the third world and you become the third world.
Environmental ideals. They've all agreed on these regulations that will save the world 0.02% in about 20 years and it will starve the working man. Trouble will come, and has come as we all have witnessed.
$5.58 per gallon. Towering over the global average, no wonder people got pissy. It's when ideals meet reality, culturally, economically, etc, that is when the pot goes boom. And not only in France. When politicians do that to their citizens to scoe global browny points, it is a dangerous game. We all know what rises up from economic hardship, if its rubbed in our faces for too long.