The 'I-object-so-I-strike' Syndrome

It almost seems like a daily occurrence now that every time you turn on the news you see groups of people protesting in the streets of Athens. Most of the time the people that strike feel that they have their rights violated in some way or another. Here are some reasons that I can think of why Greeks might get the urge to strike:

"My co-worker gets 5 euros more than me per month and he does the exact same job as I do."
"It's Friday tomorrow so let's make it a three-day weekend."
"The other guy said so and it sounds like it applies to me too."
"The prime minister wore a green shirt on national TV the other day and my patriotic values oppose that careless disregard of disloyalty to the country. He should have worn blue! How could he?"
"The media said some blasphemous things that might inadvertently apply to me...so I object."
"The government said they would give us a tax break, but they didn't, so I'm going to rally up all the garbage collectors and make them stink up the city like a landfill."
"The government is getting some underhanded black-commissions in their pockets and I want a piece of that too. So, I'm going to go to 'Syntagma' tomorrow and give them a piece of my mind."

The list can go on and on, yet the obvious commonality is that people's supercilious objections are childish and with selfish intent. Even though people's claims may be warranted they have to consider that they're up against a system that's largely the result of something that they themselves have created. When Greeks in power possess their 'powers that be' they feel like that statue that's carrying the world on its shoulders. When Greeks start buzzing about like a herd of infinitesimally miniature flies the most that they can do is to make it sneeze. Sure, they made their presence known and maybe they did create a subtle 'ripple' of change in whatever it was that they wanted to have changed; but, usually the 'ripple' of change is so minimal and so insignificant that it fades away into oblivion only to bestir another future wave of intolerant flies.
Sometimes these strikes might lead to uncontrolled riots, in which case the government musters up its troops(the malevolent police) in order to protect its own interests. Oftentimes this leads to fits of violence. As a consequence of this, a lot of public property gets vandalized and sometimes people get injured.

Analogy: We are 'GreekWalkers' with 'GrekoChlorians' in our system, so you can't mess with us! When we don't agree with what you have say you better get your lightsaber(lighsword) out cause we're about to have a dual..

God Forbid: God forbid the president of the US(or other dignitaries for that matter) should be here during the time that an out-of-control riot just happens to be in the works. The US might think that it's an issue of national security and send its troops over to weather the storm - or maybe even cause a greater storm to come about.