Sometimes there is a deadline for the act, and the process isn’t progressing fast enough. O et al see November approaching, and looks like GOP will take the Senate instead of losing the House. O has his clever plans, but seems he has a poor handle on managing them when they start going off the rails - hence the expectation of a dramatic & coarse act (shut off EBT, blame the GOP).
I hear what you’re saying. If it were just O, I would agree. That he would set fire to the house as his term is ending.
But I think O has always been a ‘run man.’ He’s never called his own shots. It’s why he can be ‘no drama obama.’ He pledged himself to certain mentors, certain causes, certain ... intentions. He’s not making this stuff up himself. Otherwise, and ego like his would try to defend it.
He didn’t find or con his way into Harvard, heading the Law Review, Win the Senate by smearing his opponents, win the presidency. This wasn’t O and it wasn’t the Chicogo mob politics.
A Strategy is not a Conspiracy. That’s why I hesitate to use the phrase ‘forces at work.’ But there are conditions and intentions. There are intentions moving conditions a certain direction. It’s not Democrats, although by their very nature, they help. Same with Liberals. Mostly even their leadership is useful idiots.
But Obama is not even a Liberal. He uses Liberalism as a means to polarize. But I promise you he doesn’t give a rats ass about gays, blacks, hispanics, the poor. He’s actually void of love and hate.
He’s a major ACTOR, but not a hand in the story.
Those conditions ... and interests pulling strings, who are both creating and taking advantage of conditions ... would not, I think, write the story as Laz laid it out. I say that only because I don’t think it’s the most effective strategy on their part. IT STANDS A CHANCE OF FAILING.
Wise armies never need to actually attack. They would prefer to walk into a village once the villagers are all dead or hypnotized or begging for the leadership to be thrown out. That is not us yet.
There is way too much infrastructure work (crumbling( left to do before the house is truly rotted. And there are still enough backbones left. I think what they need to wait for is for the generation of 20 somethings to be 40 somethings before actually kicking the post.
Then, they can walk into the village, welcomed as saviors by everyone ... saving the village from the very plague they created, intentionally.
So that’s where I’m coming from. What I see, if we should fail, is far worse, and far less painful, if we fail. Forgetting is what kills most civilizations. Omission, Distraction.
Obama doesn’t just create distractions, in a way, he is one. He’s gone from Jesus to Lightning Rod. In both cases, everyone’s transfixed, and no one is watching the devil slip in the back door.
Again, it’s why Obama seems so cool. He doesn’t care about the criticism because he doesn’t care about the praise. He laughs at those who love him, and those who hate him. They are both helping him because staring at the whacky tree, they miss the movement of the forest.
Something like that anyway ....