Why are we as America not standing up to our Government

How could you miss the entire tea party movement that have been going for some time? I don't agree with everything they stand for, but the fact is they exist and they are protesting. If you regularly read the comments on a lot of major news sites, you can see that there is a lot of people that hate Obama and what the government is doing. Four years ago the political wrath of the people wasn't so hot, but now, for the the last year especially it has been spilling over. The most noticeable place is the internet. There are also many conspiracy theories that star Obama and other world leaders as the villains - these have become mainstream. And when Obama passed that Health Care bill, many people were loudly upset about it. Americans aren't going around in a cloud blissfully thinking that the government is just and productive. Many seem to be fed up with the incompetent dinosaur we have in D.C. I think change is very possible right now - I just hope it doesn't happen violently.