How long until riots begin in the U.S.?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

If America is anywhere close to being what I hope it is, sooner rather than later. But more needs to be done than that. Our government has been sticking both middle fingers at us and laughing for far too long. Our country is an embarrassment. I also hope you guys are right in that it's apolitical. The very last thing anyone in Washington needs is a side to unequivocally take at the expense of reason. What I'm most sick of is a President that I have a feeling agrees with most of us and yet bites his tongue and plays the game anyway. I can't decide whether he'd actually grow some balls if he's reelected or if he really is just a career campaigner. Something's gotta give, regardless. Anyway, now I'm just rambling. Essentially, it needs to happen and it needs to be big.

I also get this feeling that Obama does agree with "us" and he's probably frustrated with himself for f**king up so grandly.  But I don't foresee a change.  He's not playing the game.  The game is playing him.

Honestly, I hope that Obama snaps. I hope that he has a mental breakdown where he loses his faith in his ability to compromise with the Republicans, with his ability to win reelection, and what he was taught growing up, and realizes that Summers, Bernanke, Geithner, etc etc f--ked him over and set up him up to be the fall guy for their theft. But it's probably too much to hope for.

This.

This, this, this, this, this.

A completely and utterly mad President is one of the only things that I can conceive of that could even begin to break free of this grey area, one way or another.

Another is large-scale rioting coupled with occupation of major urban areas. I'm talking occupation, People Power Revolution-style jamming the Washington Beltway/Fifth Avenue/Boston Common/New Jersey Turnpike/I-90 in Chicago/you get the idea with human bodies until something gives.