This is not going to happen for some very good reasons.
The first is that the typical American is not going to revolt as long as he has a roof over his head, and food in his belly. This was the single reason that “Ol’ Frank” Roosevelt succeeded where Herbert Hoover failed.
But importantly, this doesn’t mean that if Obama provides these things, he gets to do anything else he wants to. Far from it. In fact, even though it is the exact opposite of what he wants to do, he will probably have no choice but to dismantle the socialism we already have.
The odds are that after just a few years, he will be helpless, hopeless, and prematurely aged by things beyond his power to control.
His internationalism is dead already, all international trade but oil and food drying up. The credit crunch still has some painful collapses to endure, such as the Alt-A and ARM mortgage collapses, 1.5 times larger than the subprime collapse. And the collapse of the US Treasury bill market is going to be awesome, and remembered in history books for hundreds of years.
In short, there is little the federal government can do other than house and feed homeless and hungry Americans, possible renounce its national debt, eliminate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; and finally to not tax those trying to rebuild all the industry we outsourced in the past 40 years.
“there is little the federal government can do other than house and feed homeless and hungry Americans”
Where n the constitution does the government get the right to house and feed anyone.
Eliminate all welfare!
“The first is that the typical American is not going to revolt as long as he has a roof over his head, and food in his belly. This was the single reason that ‘Ol’ Frank’ Roosevelt succeeded where Herbert Hoover failed.”
I don’t understand this point. FDR did not put roofs in over the heads and food in the bellies of the general population any better than did Hoover. What worked for Frank, in my opinion, was the beginning of “identity politics,” and the creation of coalitions of voters who depended on a particular candidate to get them goodies. But perhaps that’s what you meant in the first place.