It's been building a long time...this is jut the latest example. Prior to the Civil War, in its aftermath, really got moving down hill in 1913 and beyond, picked up a fevered, almost suicidal pitch under FDR, became deadly in the 1960's and 1970's, reached new deathly lows in the 1990s...and now this (not to mention CFR and others).
Nope, it's a long term, killing drought that has brought the tree of liberty to this point...this horrible thirst it is experiencing now.
Iraq is having trouble creating a constitution......may as well send em ours as our polidiots and their judical whores ain't using it......