NONE of those socialistic policies worked as well as a free market, but they had the public's love because misery loves company and despises the non-miserable. So it is with the god-man Obama. He, like Carter, like FDR, is a man-god of The cult of shared Misery. As long has he has his office and power, and with him the junior demi-gods of the Congress and the dins of the fedgov bureaucracy have their grifts, swags, comforts, health plans, free gyms, free day care and golden egg pensions, that cult's priesthood is happy.
And today we have no anglophile President of a besieged Britannia to pull us into full-out world war which (for reasons to be explained further on) rescues the economy, and restores national vigor while casting off the cultic vig.
What we absolutely lack is accountability. In nigh every sphere of culture, economy and government. Only the small transactions, and the very frugal and humble are free of the Big Imaginary Santa Claus culture and economy. The Congress enacts bailouts of stupendous imagination, based on some magical thinking Keynesian mythos. Based on abject ignorance of history, and a total disregard for honesty and ethics in money.
Comes Obama, THE Man of his time. A creature of pure imagination, of pure sophomoric self-righteous disdain for history, of pure ego. A Child-God, surrounded, adored, worshiped by the cult of the Child-Adult. Of course Obama's the hero in a Spiderman comic! What better mark is there of the cult!
Honesty and ethics are what is lacking. Government does not provide them! Yet because government officials are indemnified from accountability for actions that would be criminal in the private sphere -- running an economy as a government-driven economy is toxic to accountability, not just neutral and dilutive.
That is why World War II saved the US. In all-out war, accountability returns. People are taught in tragedy and death, in mire and blood, what the result of unfettered imagination is. The sad and unacceptable result of accepting the leadership of the amoral and unethical and the god-ship of a cult of dreamers becomes intolerable to all.
Should be have to bear such a war again? As long as the culture accepts dreams and smoke -- what other rescue might be had? And if not rescued, well then -- the outcome is far worse.
Dark descends.
Full blown war was good back then but nowadays the enemy hides behind children.
The only way to have a full out war that would jumpstart production would be if there was an organized invasion of the US, Russia takes back Alaska, China grabs the Pacific NW, Central America floods the South West and Islamic terrorists nuke the east coast.
Or...
A natural disaster, a comet strike, Yellowstone erupting, events like that.
Worst case scenario worthy of a Hollywood script, a secret agency gets orders to fake an attack upon America and plants evidence another nation or religion was the attacker.