These issues are every one of them, bait.
Obamacare, abortion, religious liberty, immigration, pacifism, open borders, racism, oil and gas, crime, business, corporate banking, etc., is smoke for the fire, to rile up the “minorities” against capitalists, risk takers, Christians, the military, the working middle class, certainly the Tea Party.
Obama is tooling the have-not’s and the fascists to strike both the producers and the Anglos. With a pipeline of communication technology, “Obamafoames”, they can reach their troops and create unrest.
This is how you get some guy radicalized enough to threaten home and family one Ted Cruz.
You're precisely right.