I don't know much about the politics of America but in England the recession has not yet kicked in but I can see in the next couple of years lots of unrest to come.

Previous recessions have only affected the poor so no-one cared; this recessions is going to hit the middle income people and where-as the poor are stoical about the way there are treated and have always been treated badly, the middle class think they deserve better. They are just about to swell the ranks of the poor so that we will have only two classes of people in the UK, the rich and the poor ...