Via Steve Benen I read something so sublimely crazy that it cries out for a reality intervention: it seems that Senator Jim DeMint thinks that if the auto companies get some cash, there will be riots against them.  Say what?  In fact, he thinks there has already been violence because of the issue?

Again, say what?

If Americans are upset about some people getting help when they aren’t, I don’t think a few billion dollars for car companies are going to push them over the edge when 700 billion dollar for Wall Street fat cats didn’t.

Violence, if violence occurs, will come in a factory sit in gone wrong, or at a foreclosure court, or when somebody tries to come and claim property they bought at a distressed auction, and the neighbours get testy.  In the Great Depression, when farms were auctioned off, the neighbours would often show up at the auctions with guns.  Strangely, usually no one wanted to buy those farms.  Even that rarely turned to violence.

No, the US isn’t at the point of food or job riots yet, and when they come it won’t be because of something like trying to save blue collar jobs.