Sometimes it's amazing to see how even though our society overwhelmingly agrees that the Wall Street bailouts are awful, the establishment still manages to find away to pit us against one another instead of uniting us all against the establishment.
Just look at how the media reported on the recent rise in popularity of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and the Going Galt movement.
This is how this story was reported by the establishment conservative pundits like Sean Hannity and Bill O'reilly. "You're a hard working middle class American who believes in "Family Values" and who wants to be protected from "Terrreererism", but those crazy "Socialist" liberals want to take your hard earned wealth and redistribute it to their campaign contributers on Wall Street. You should read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and go Galt.
Meanwhile, if you switch over to liberal media personalities like Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, or the comic Relief of Steven Colbert, you'll hear something like this. "You're a hard working middle class American who got defrauded out of your money and lost your home when those Conservative "Capitalist Pigs" with their philosophy of "Greed is Good" wrecked this economy with their deregulation. Now those rich fat cats are saying that if you raise taxes on them to pay for the recovery, then that's redistribution of wealth, and they want to stage tax revolts in protest and they're drawing upon Ayn Rand for philosophical inspiration. You should reject the message of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and hate everyone who is going Galt.
Both sides essentially agree that the rich are stealing from the middle class and oppose the corporate bailouts but the political paradigm of left and right and the nefariously ingenious way the issues are framed by the corporate media, with all these distortion and inflamatory buzzwords, causes people to fight amongst each other rather than unite to fight the establishment. The brilliance of the whole charade is absolutely Machiavellian.