I live countryside, there is nothing here, the next protest is like 50km away. So I do not know if it is dying down or getting worse, I just heard that it is worse.
The only thing that happened around here is a group of people who thought they could take advantage of the chaos and decided to "attack" my niece's highschool with.. fireworks… '-_- and got arrested right away… ( LOLed my ass off when she told me )
I do not participate myself in protests, not only because they are far, but mostly because I have severe heart issues now. This is unfortunate, I am a former kickboxer and, if only I still could, I would have enjoyed beating up some of these corrupt cops who prefer the safer option of obeying a dictatorship than protecting people who pay for their salary. To me, they are traitors, they really deserve to be beaten up like shit and I would have been very proud.
Most people I know fully support the yellow vest movement, they feel it is in the same spirit as the Revolution and may 68, people fighting for their rights against nasty rulers. A few disagree, like my neightbor, because they say it will cost money and be useless, they hate the gov too however.
But nobody I know participate, it's always like that, you agree but you do nothing, only if they win you will proudly say that you helped though you did not.
It is true that at the very beginning, the protest was against a new tax. We already had plenty of taxes because of that climat change joke, which is a lie to begging with, so people had enough.
Soon many other ones came and started protesting about various other things.
Now everybody protest about just everything, even things the president is not responsible of at all. It turned into a "we want change" global movement.
Unfortunatly, most people just think that the president decides everything, they do not realize that he is just a disposable puppet and the problems are actually from those who pull his strings and European Union. So no, overall the protesters do not know who the real enemies are.
At the beginning the protesters were peaceful. The guys you see in videos causing trouble and breaking stuff were actually paid by the gov to cause trouble so cops are legitimate to come and beat up everybody.
People grew really pissed off, not only because of the beating, but because of the politicals behavior of course, and now real protesters are breaking stuff too.
It seems to me that there are quite a lot protesting against immigration, but official news will NEVER show it, and politicals will go on ignoring it. They have blacks/arabs and whites hate each other on purpose, so they always ignore complains about this problem they made themselve.
To me, the protesters can't win being nice and peaceful, I really would like some assassinations to happen. I mean it.
Those who pull Macron's strings, and who pulled France's strings for long, are mad billionaires who cause wars, who waste millions of lives just to get always more and more money even though they already are disgustingly rich. They won't stop just because a few people complain. At best they may just replace him with somebody else.
They need to all be killed, this is the only way of changing anything, and unfortunatly I seriously doubt it would ever happen.