Smouldering Anger

Posting a comment to Victor Davis Hanson's March 17, 2009 Pajamas Media blog Works and Days, “proreason” summed up the current situation at http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-“depression”-for-us-idiots/2/ :

"VDH is getting there but not quite yet.

The government is run by crooks, Mr. Hanson. It’s that simple. You, as a pre-eminently honorable man don’t want to admit it. But it’s the truth.

All the mysteries you see are easily explained if you just assume that everyone in higher office is after 2 things, personal wealth and power, and that they get it by using the sytem in a criminal manner…buying votes, lying, accepting bribes, selling favors.

You, like many, are tempted to also blame big business, but no business can destroy the world’s economy. They simply are not large enough. No, only government can do the kind of damage that we have seen. Businessmen are naturally greedy, but capitalism is self-correcting, unless twisted by government intervention, as it has been throughout this artificial “crisis”.

But that isn’t new news. The new news is that a criminal cabal has executed a coup d’etat of the government, enabled by the brain-dead media. They now have a strangle-hold on power and are running at full-speed to implement socialist policies (i.e., stealing from you to buy ignorant people who happen to be able to vote) that they think will insure their power forever.

But they didn’t figure on one thing.

We are really really angry.

And it won’t stand.”

Should this smouldering anger ignite a powder keg of widespread civil unrest, will it not play perfectly into the hands of the Obamanators as a pretext for ever more government as the "fix" to “just do something?”