Mass Protests Across France Condemn Macron Attack on Pension System

French president Macron has sparked a general strike by proposing to raise the retirement age for the non-rich.

I can imagine situations of great adversity where a democratic country would act justly by increasing the age for retirement pensions. But since that adversity would be fiscal in nature, it is a moral obligation to demand sacrifices first of the rich. Macron fails to understand this, because he believes in plutocracy.

His main opponents, even more right-wing, are likewise plutocratist but their stated ideology is to demonize some disprivileged groups. Right-wingers generally seek to divide people, so they use scapegoats.