It didn’t when FDR was confiscating gold. Dammit. It better THIS time.
Remember, though, that FDR owned the media. He started public TV and radio, and invented the "fairness doctrine" to control information. The effect was that the public was mostly uninformed, and even when people felt that things were not right, there was no mass communications available to spread facts or to let people of similar thought share their opinions.
Reagan did us a HUGE favor by getting rid of the fairness doctrine. As well, the internet still remains free (for now) so that sites like this one allow the free exchange of ideas and information as the first amendment allows.
Thus, while FDR was able to use his controlled media to explain away the confiscation of gold, such activities today will be met with violent, deadly resistance. Why? Because people know better. People know that the government, under Obama, is fast becoming the enemy of a free people. People know that the government stands as the root cause of our financial trouble. People know that the government's solution will be just as dangerous as the original problem. People know because the first amendment exists.