This new protest movement that has started (Extinction Rebellion) in Germany has the ultimate plan of using Mondays to block streets and roads mostly around Berlin (at least in Germany). Some journalists are suggesting it would expand but there isn't any factual data to suggest that.
Who are the rebels? If you go and look at the the attendees....it's mostly the same crowd that you would have seen in Hamburg in July 2017 (the G7 conference)....young people eager to bring change and revolution. In plain words, it's the anti-capitalist gang all over again.
The term used in the UK...'watermelons'. It basically means that they are green or environmentalists as they present themselves....however red or anti-capitalists on the inside of their movement. The 'repentance' gimmick? That's the odd thing that really stands out in this landscape. You are told by Extinction Rebellion that you can ask for forgiveness and have some type of repenting moment....but that requires you to give up something.
If we were just talking about giving up on cigarettes or chewing gum....it probably be that big of a deal. But there's this lifestyle change required.....where you'd discard most all travel options, give up beef and pork entirely, and half of society would eventually be living under some bridge, or tending to some garden plot for their basic survival.
So Extinction Rebellion is going to have some problems in selling their campaign.
So how is this business going to go in Berlin? The public might have bought into a limited blockage 'game' this past Monday, but if this were to continue on every Monday, and expand....it'll draw criticism to the political establishment, and demands for city councils and the police to react.
In the late 1960s and into the 1970s....German protest movements had a number of successful moments, however....they didn't hinder the general public in it's way to work, or make that many demands.
If you go and tell 300,000 folks who work in Berlin and require a vehicle to reach their office each Monday morning....that they will be hindered from 60 to 90 minutes....it means that they will be either docked pay, or be expected to work the time past 5 PM. Just three or four of these chaotic Mondays, and public anger would be heavily focused upon Extinction Rebellion in a negative way. The Greta-kids weren't harming their landscape and they could allow them to play their game. This new group? It's attached to negativity.
Eventually, someone is going to do a flow-chart, and ask who sponsors this Extinction Rebellion and find something that suggests an effort to create national chaos. At that point, German patience will be finished off.
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