It is bad enough that some people out there are pulling every strawman argument out there against free markets to explain what's going on (ignoring that government has caused many of these problems). It's worse that a good number of people, especially those that are left-leaning although they are not the only ones, clamor to see the government to do something about this and react unfavorably when they do not.

Now, we have politicians in all their populist glory throwing matches atop this powder keg. Lovely. Nothing good ever comes out of situations like this.