evacideIf you're asking "Why don't Americans riot like the French?" but you also complain whenever there's a protest and someone breaks a storefront window, I see you and you make me so goddamn tired.
lorddimwit is now @I hate the "transportation/whatever is better in Europe because population density" but I do sometimes wonder: about 20% of France's population lives in the Paris metro area, whereas about 2% of Americans live in the DC metro area.
In other words, when the French protest in their capital, they're able to bring a lot more pressure to bear, relatively speaking, on their national government.