Sons of Anarchy: Rebels and Bad Subjects with a Cause?

The Existing Conditions
I believe this is mandatory – to set the surrounding scene of present
existing conditions – even if one is dealing with a TV show about a
Hell’s Angels-like club of bikers who, week after week, give us plenty
to object to. What attracts me is the fact that the bikers object to…
well, in the words of Marlon Brando’s Johnny in The Wild One,
“Whatya got?” This, of course, is but another way of asking us to
describe “the existing conditions”, which are, unfortunately, neither
transparent nor uncontested, and fully dependent on whether one is Tea
Party, or, the nemesis of the Tea Party—a Socialist.