Joshua T Berglan "The World's Mayor"

You've been had. Turn on the news and Europe is burning because of Muslims. Scary brown men, sharia, the whole Saturday night horror package. You ate it, you shared it, you called it awareness. But who's actually in the street? France: teenagers. High school kids blockading schools since September because the ceilings are falling in. Then the university students. Then teachers, unions, farmers, pensioners and the yellow vests. Half a million people on October 17. Government buildings torched. The town hall in Limoges set on fire. A cop and a protester dead. Over 2,700 arrested, more than 200 already jailed through fast-track courts. These people are not fucking around. Meanwhile in America, a protest is a choreographed dance number, a cardboard sign with a pun on it, and everyone home by nine to post the photos. Europe is setting city halls on fire over rent. Not doing TikTok routines over the apocalypse like the kosher-19 nurses. Spain: an 87 year old woman got thrown out of her home and the country lost its mind. Rent is the jihad. Italy: kids occupying schools in Rome and Turin. Truckers blockading because of diesel costs. The education minister went on record blaming France's riots on immigrants. The guy is standing in his own fire telling you to look at the neighbors. Albania: Jared and Ivanka wanted a luxury resort on a protected island. Albanians told the most connected family on earth to get lost. Now the students are in too and the prime minister might not survive the winter. One pedo resort and a whole government is wobbling. Real estate did that. Not religion. Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, Germany. Same grievance list everywhere. Rent. Fuel. School fees. A paycheck that dies by the 20th. And before anyone starts: open borders are a tool of war to help subvert a nation, I get that. And, this is not a defense of Islam either. I don't particularly care. I care about what's true, and what's true is that none of these people are marching for a prophet. They're marching for a lower electric bill. It's not a holy war, it’s an invoice. Every politician prays at night that you'll keep arguing about the color of the crowd so you never ask what the crowd is actually angry about. Because the answer is them.