People are pissed. Every time I talk to someone about anything vaguely political, thats the conclusion. The more reforms and taxes, or even mention of taxes, the closer we get to the tipping point. Every day, someone walks into somewhere and starts shooting - and these are just the ones we hear about. They may not directly represent anything purely political, anything specific, but its a symptom of a massive group of unhappiness looking to enact revenge on fucked up living situations. Opportunity is going down the drain in a big sucking sound, taking hard-earned wealth with it.
The generations of prosperity that made the next have a better standard is reversing, and we may not be squatting in the dirt, but they do not like the vision of the future as it currently appears, nor do they like the sudden slap-down the present has wrought so easily. These people blame the establishment and its lies, and are sick of footing the brunt of the cost, and watching the redistribution to people who have done nothing to earn it.
Meanwhile, the things we worked so hard for can now be so easily obtained by people who don't even work for or appreciate it, everything is turned on its head. Your average schmo can walk out of WalMart with a huge flat-panel, and put it up in his really nice crib - paid for with welfare and drug money in a foreclosure sale, and the box gets left outside on his litter-strewn lawn as our home values spiral down to nothing. People are living purely in the moment, not for tomorrow. They're just abandoning shit and leaving us with the bill, racking up debt and walking away from it when our ethics of two years ago have us trying to pay it down at exorbitant rates that are going higher. Doesn't surprise me at all that people are going on murder sprees, when they can't get a permit to improve their house when the one next door is a fucking slumpit, and was nicely kept just a few years ago by a different family who had to leave. Its enough to make good and decent people consider doing the same walk-away routine. Its an epidemic.
The more it happens, the more it will grow, in a snowball. And the symptomatic violence will grow with it, as people unfamiliar with their situation are thrust into uncomfortable choices, it will push more people over the edge. This is the tinderbox, waiting for the spark. Wealth, opportunity and prosperity are the damp green that prevents it from catching flame. Blockades and martial law are the firestops when it erupts in the dry and unforgiving minds of people who once had it all, and now have shit for their efforts. Its gonna keep happening, person after person. Mixed among the snaps are more methodical lunatics who will do Beltway Sniper-style acts, putting already edgy people on further emotional roller coasters. It doesn't take much to put people into hysteria, when shit is no fucking good to begin with. And when the mob finally loses its marbles in revolt, nothing can stop it short of murdering it as it shakes the gates to wreckage. That'll be the breaking point of our people, media blackout on the White House lawn, dead strewn everywhere.
I hope to be so far out in the middle Bumfuck when that happens, it takes me all day to go get groceries. All those lunatics can kiss my ass, on both sides of their angry little squabble.
Great video, by the way.