People are getting tired of being pushed around.
In my home state of Utah, the federal government just set a bunch of rules about how you can travel on government land. Basically this makes it so that if you live in the extremely rural counties of Garfield or Kane, you can’t actually GO anywhere. You can’t actually travel across land that your ancestors travelled across with wagons or handcarts, and that your family has crossed for the last hundred years, because a bureaucrat in Washington (who’s never actually been to Utah) decreed that you can’t cross that land unless you do it in some sort of magical conveyance that doesn’t make noise or carbon. This might not sound like much to some of you, but with the stroke of a pen, the lives and livelyhoods of thousands of people were just altered for the worst on a whim.
That is just another example amongst the hundreds. Things like that are what are driving the Tea Parties.
– Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Nation
If you’re interested in some of the other hundreds, if not thousands of examples, pick up a copy of Vin Suprynowicz’s The Ballad of Carl Drega, or if that’s too dry for you, John Ross’s Unintended Consequences.