I know why the villagers have pitchforks.
The government keeps failing them.
Your first reaction should have been to New Orleans, but our government failed us on a much more deeper level. That just showed how incompetent the Bush Administration's FEMA Department was, we all knew that. Good lord, it is W we are talking about.
The government failed to help the common citizen as all our jobs and all our wealth slowly started to disappear. Soon citizens found themselves out of work for years, phased out by either modernized manufacturing or the shipping of jobs to unfair labor markets overseas or basic incompetence and/or greed of the corporate class.
Sure the government was there to make sure we didn't starve, but they were nowhere to be found when the bank came for the car, and then later, the house.
This was America, though, everyone is personally responsible for their own wealth. Them the rules, the rule of law, and in this case, the marketplace.
Then the Panic of 2008 happened and the citizens across this land saw our government all of the sudden find trillions of dollars to hand over to Wall Street or else there would be martial law.
It became apparent that the corporate right to exist economically superseded that of the citizen's right.
Otherwise the money spent would not have gone to paying off the wild bets of drunken gamblers, but to settle the mortgages of all the citizens' property, and other debts such as student and car loans, about which these bets were made.
And probably for half the price at that.
Instead everyone watched as the excess of Wall Street was rewarded, saving it from the harsh reality of the marketplace that had crushed so many citizens into economic roadkill.
Citizens watched the government save the very corporations whose mantra of marketplace had lost them their jobs, and had had the banks take their homes.
That is why we are angry. This is why we should all be angry. We, the people, are this nation, and this government, not a construct of law by the name of corporation.
Every day it seems like the cards get stacked up more against the personal liberties of the average citizen, and more in favor of corporate interests.
I know this has been going on for awhile, but it is slowly starting to sink in and that's why the Teabaggerists are gaining steam.
And until the Obama Administration addresses this fundamental issue, the conservative populist outrage will fuel the steam engine of the crazy train, out to destinations unknown.