Seems to me a lot of propaganda and lack of understanding. Sure, people are afraid because everything seems to be collapsing, but the anger demonstrated around the country is not just because we have a black President, or the moron Savage proclaims fags are ruining the country.
Unfortunately, both the Bush and Obama administrations have had their hands in a bit of corporate fascism and underlying similarities. When the government takes money from the masses and hands it to a minority group of people, like Wall Street investment bankers for instance, there's no question that Wall Street has hijacked Washington.
For instance, Goldman Sachs recorded record profits this past quarter because the government allowed them to use flash trading, or basically insider trading. Taxpayer money was provided to AIG so that they could repay Goldman Sachs, a company that took a bad bet in credit default swaps. Without that injection of capital, GS wouldn't even be around today, but instead they're trading for record profits, manipulating the market and paying themselves record bonuses. This lovely piece of "good business" for a company "too big to fail" comes after GS was the largest institutional campaign donator during Obama's quest for the Presidency.
Most people don't understand this stuff, but many do understand they're being robbed blind, and they're getting sick and tired of it. I am too, and I hope the level of outrage in this country builds even more so we can save it from these parasites.
It's quite obvious to me that both the Republicans and Democrats are one in the same, with one party being the representatives of the military industrial complex and the other being representatives for bankers around the globe. But the worst part about this fact is that they need each other to survive. The weapons need the banks, and the banks need the weapons. And like two peas in a pod, it's the same story for both parties in our two-party system.
It's taken me years to realize this, but finally I'm starting to understand -- the world is a stage and we're all actors on it. That's why I can no longer take any of this right-left paradigm shit serious anymore.