I mean the formula seems pretty clear to me..
A group of average men get tired of being fucked by a well-funded government that only sees them as disposable objects standing in the way of their ambitions. The men band together to protect themselves and retaliate and in the process, they go too far. The government labels them something sub-human (terrorists, pirates, "the enemy,") the media runs with it and then all the short-sighted squares cling to this phrase and rise up to condemn them, calling for their deaths so they can feel safe at night..