"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"? 

American Pitchfork Manifesto: Tipping Point on the Road to Amarabia?

A Fictional Retrospective From the Great Beyond

By Pitchfork © 2009-2010
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Freely quote with attribution

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Brief excerpts from the essay's Part 2:  When Would Hordes of American Howard Beales Have Bellowed:  "I'm As Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Going To Take This Anymore!!"?

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Why not too late?  Liberty and freedoms had that affect on a person, on a sense of God, family, country.  Needn’t have smugged-up: the sun sets before rising again; this wasn’t about perfectibility of people; it was about perfectibility of goals, the divinity of human potential – its rise and fall and rise.

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Change was in the wind, it had been canted and chanted.  It was change of the fourth kind, of the fourth form, when real, palpable, on your carpet and in your face change was not expected and did happen.  That was betrayal; it threatened, then angered for defense, coping, remedy, or retribution.

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Note well that there had been a disconnection of America’s people and governance from the get-go.  This disconnect was not in the importance of governance, but rather in the process of governance – not to have been tops-down, but bottoms-up.  The Framers knew that the governing were inherently corruptible, and that corruptibility varied directly with the size and scope of governance.   
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Semi-capitalism – capialism or socitalism – mostly trumped politics, still, in Amerika, but losses piled.  Day-to-day, capialism still had meant every job, whether paying or paid for. 
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Dissing the U. S. Constitution earmarked America’s enemies by whatever titles they touted, flags they flew, bucks they banked, or deities they held dear. America’s enemies would have put a big hurt on you if they could have, again – from without or from within – dressed in a dishdasha, di la Renta, or judicial gown.  Dissembling or, worse, deference in connection with America’s enemies was of, by, and for the weak, the cowards, the treacherous, and the treasonous. 
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It was sooner or later, the maddening.  For the tipping point – the fear, the resistance must have resonated; unbearable, meaningless suffering must have been personal and shared by recognizable majorities.  
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A popularity contest of dilemmas, guilts, and bigotries had revved toward the Evil Counter Reformation fuller tilt.  Would it have been an unpopularity contest of betrayal and threat, of fear and resistance that ended it?   

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