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Police: Angry cart pusher mowed down student, 18, with vehicle
According to a probable cause affidavit, Mason, a high school senior, was confronted by Ferguson on July 10 after he “picked up a few DVDs and games and decided to put them back.”
“Why are you stealing out of my store?” Ferguson yelled. “I should whip your ass.”
After claiming to Ferguson that he was not intending to shoplift, the teenager left the store and headed home on foot. As he walked through the parking lot of a nearby business, Mason “heard a vehicle drive up behind him and then he was struck in the right side of his body.”
Heather Gasses exist all around the country, ordinary American conservatives who are fed up and leading the charge. There's frustration on the left, too – aimed not only at the Republican Party, for hindering Obama's agenda, but also at Wall Street and its "no-limits-casino banking culture," as liberal blogger Arianna Huffington writes on her Huffington Post website.
She and other leaders on the populist left, such as the Rev. Jim Wallis, are urging people to move their money from "too big to fail" banks into community banks.
There's also disaffection among moderates, frustrated by the high degree of political polarization that leaves little room for compromise on major policy matters. But efforts in the last decade to build a "radical middle" movement – a drive to marry the best ideas of the right and left – seem to have faded.
The tea party and the Occupy movement both arose in response to pervasive frustration. As we've grown accustomed to hearing in recent years, Americans are angry. They're angry at bankers, who helped cause the financial crisis but paid no price for it. They're angry at Washington, which blamed the bankers but deserved as much blame, if not more, for failing to rein them in. And they're angry at an economy that seems to enrich the wealthy while leaving most everyone else standing still or falling behind.
This anger manifests itself in a strong anti-elite bias and a determination to resist an oppressive leviathan — though the monster takes different forms in the two movements. For the tea party, it's the federal government in Washington; for Occupy, it's bailout-addicted big business.
Originally posted by fnpmitchreturns
I just see a general frustration everywhere. There is a rise in activism every place I see from all competing sources to scream the loudest and most outrageous. I don't know if it is related to the bad economy; the fact that many people are stressed financially or even the looming war in the Middle east. I just find that people have been under a different kind of stress since 911 and it is effecting our national psyche.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by fnpmitchreturns
Americans might be angry. But they WILL continue taking it. 2012 elections are right around the corner, so assume the position.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
reply to post by fnpmitchreturns
Americans might be angry. But they WILL continue taking it. 2012 elections are right around the corner, so assume the position.