What's different is that now they're being led. Limbaugh and Beck and the big-money preachers are getting corporate money to stir up the dumbasses. The goal it to make government impossible and to tie the electorate up in knots while the country's owners scrape all the spare change into one big pile. Avarice and control seem to be their operating principles. They're going to screw the lid down tight if they can. Homeland security knows where you live.