Your speak of the Boston Tea Party intrigues me. Perhaps it needs to be repeated in a more modern version.
I think most people when the issues are explained to them would feel the same way.
Most people also think Bush is stupid. I agree with this, which is why I don't believed Bush lied about Iraq. Bush told us what he believed, Congress given the same information also believed it. Someone else is pulling the strings, Who knows, it could be internal or external.
We are in the head long in a never ending undeclared war. No one blessed with the backing of either political party is going to stop it. Congress wants telecom immunity just as "Bush" does for the illegal wiretaps - on both sides of the aisle. "First they came for this group of people, and I did nothing. Then they came for the next group, and I did nothing, etc. Then they came for me, but there was no one left to protect me." The telecoms were the first line of defense and they buckled, and they need to be punished for it thoroughly and unconditionally to the fullest extent of the law.
The old quote speaking of the holocaust and you mentioning the Boston Tea Party has given me an idea. The groups of people who's jobs are getting moved offshore are not protected by a union. Perhaps those are should step in before its too late. I propose those unions who protect the jobs of those who work at our sea ports go on strike. If that doesn't work, then the air ports -> no international flights out, no international flights in. Every thing domestic is a go. Next rail.
For God's sake, we are Americans. Why are we allowing our government and the corporations it has blessed with rights into fleecing us?