I don’t know if it is due to Obama having idiots in charge of everything or what, but I wonder about such downgrades.
You are right.
We now live in a Soviet-style age of government misinformation, with our enconomic statistics, healthcare numbers, unemployment levels and so on bearing remarkable relevance to the old Soviet five- and ten-year plans.
“Look, Comrade, we have tripled our wheat production for the 10th straight year! Now if only we could by some bread....”