Billo, problem is that the government hasn't been giving people many things to be excited about. Have you seen the Congress approval rating? Have you been following the AP scandal and the Obama Admin cracking down on whistleblowers and journalists who paint them in a bad light? Or the expansion of the NSA? Or the failure to jail a single banker in light of the largest destruction of our economy in history? Or the failure to end the bailout (QE continuing indefinitely)?
Don't get mad at the people who are mad at the gov't for legitimate reasons, get mad at the gov't for being so corrupted and dysfunctional and try to work with your countrymen to fix things. God knows it needs fixing.
Not being exited about the government is one thing, demonizing it as the enemy of American's, is quite another.
Their rhetoric, is having destructive consequences in this country, as this LAX shooting has shown.
The hateful vitriol from the right, is spewing out into the marketplace of ideas, that it is okay to take the law into your own hands. And the freaks and lunatics of this society, are picking up on that and acting upon it.