There isn't an "All of the above" so I voted "Other".
Good arguments could be made, I suppose, for any of the choices, but right now I'm thinking of the first choice, the primitives being angry at the DUmpster because they've never been challenged before.
In my whole entire lifetime, the news media, academia, government, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, the arts (or, the "arts"), have been overwhelmingly dominated by the "hate America first, blame America first, there is no God, demonize the nasty opposition, kill them if you can" mob.
And of course the Age of Aquarius was ushered in with the mid-term elections of 1974; the evil old white-man Establishment had been utterly destroyed, the hippies now in charge.
By 1980, everything on the hippie agenda of the 1960s was either legal, or at least socially acceptable.
The primitives fail to see that
they are the Establishment, and have been for quite a while now.
Now, we're talking nearly--not quite, but nearly--two generations whose ideas and attitudes haven't been challenged, other than by occasional pot-shots or a Republican president in office for a while (during which time, because the Establishment was against him, he couldn't do nearly all the good he wished to do).
The Democrats, liberals, and primitives evolved into a mutual-admiration society, reassuring each other over and over again that they're nice people, that they're unselfish people, that they're noble people, that they're the most moral people on God's green earth.
And this mutual admiration has been constantly reinforced by the news media, academia, government, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, the "arts" assuring the primitives they're right; they're a gift to mankind, the primitives.
They've never been challenged before; the primitives
actually believe they're nice people, smart people.
And just as the hippies did in the 1960s and 1970s to the evil old white men, ridiculing and mocking and deriding them, ultimately usurping them, well, turnabout's beginning to happen (although it has a l-o-n-g ways to go yet).
The primitives are being challenged, and they don't like it; they'd hoped to be the Establishment forever.