Or maybe they do see it, but think it's imprudent to say so.
I don't know.
“...they seem to miss the hardcore threat of an Obama.....Or maybe they do see it, but think it’s imprudent to say so.”
I suspect that that’s the case. Or maybe they feel it just goes without saying. Just like the Obamas of the world , or any other totalitarians, the left wing base of the Democrat Party, or the European “democracies” believe that governmental power should be limitless. Their goal is “fairness”, NOT freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
The thing is that once things go sour people stop cooperating with governmental “reforms” in order to protect their property or whatever other natural rights. At that point the mask is off, and the governmental apparatus in these “democracies” will come down on them with whatever it takes. So once we get Obama and a Democrat congress and left wing domination of the Supreme Court, we’ll just be a temporarily wealthy version of North Lorea and Cuba.
Bureaucratic tyrrany (how do you spell that?) is already here in its early stages, with liberal state government beauracracies refusing to investigate massive voter fraud (even in the face of massive evidence), or Democrats in Bush’s Justice Dept railroading Cheney’s chief of staff, or low level operatives in the CIA leaking defense secrets to the NY Times. Or how about those “Human Rights Commissions” in Canada?