where's my tea party?

Call them the flea market fascists. I started to wonder when gun sales skyrocketed after Obama's election. Then came the "tea parties". Now the errant modern day Sons of Liberty have taken up the cause of health care reform as their latest foment of outrage. I find it truly stupefying that even a meager attempt at addressing the absolutely corrupt and morally crippled state of our health care system draws the ire of the "masses". Every developed nation in the world possesses a more sane method of public health care than the United States and yet this bizarre and highly suspect "outburst" of public protest over health care overhaul solidifies my belief that many Americans are just waiting for an angry coach to tell them which way to charge. Of course this time it's insurance companies and private health care firms bursting with dollars from record profits, profit margins that are breaking the bodies, spirits, and pockets of millions of Americans. But the ever ready red flag of "socialism" is thrown asunder and the peculiar geriatric platoons fall out in angry protest. How many of these town hall upsetters are actually concerned citizens and how many are just paid shills of the lords of industry is quite obviously open to query. I feel that either way I remain cynical at the American people's tapeworm like appetite for bullshit, when shoveled by smooth gloved hands. Well, you get what you deserve. And when these pathetic saps are stripped of their fancy privatized health care plans by employers they will be the first in line for whatever the big bad government is willing to hand them. Or maybe their irascible eruptions will disrupt whatever calm and patient attempt we have at trying to cure our cruelly diseased system. Either way the pioneers of popular unrest, from Sam Adams to Bill Haywood, must be shuddering from the great beyond.