[Falcon28]

Obama is using the Cloward and Piven Strategy. Overwhelm the system in hope of people becoming apathetic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy

[Falcon28]

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse

[shezza]

Overwhelm the system in hope of people becoming apathetic.

Exactly. Desensitization of shock-and-awe leads to, "Meh, whatever..."