Napoleon is rumored to have once said “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”.
But I think we are beyond stupidity, here. The economic preformance of this administration is so poor, there has to be some reason why they are intentionally sabotaging the US economy. You can’t get to where we are by accident.
One theory is that it is simple graft gone wild. Chicago on the Potomac, and all that. The US Government has been turned into a money machine for Obama and his cronies, and we are suffering as a result. While this is certainly true, as we witness Hundreds of Billions of dollars being siphoned off to politically connected donors and bundlers, the US economy should be strong enough to overcome malfeasance, even on such a massive scale.
My feeling is that the economy is being stifled intentionally, and the ability of people to make money and become rich through the traditional path of free enterprise is being destroyed for a purpose. And that purpose is to destroy the notion, previously held by the US people as a matter of bedrock faith, that one can lift oneself up to the level of the rich through hard work and initiative.
Class warfare has never worked in the United States because the people, in the main, fail to resent the wealthy. The reason they do not resent the wealthy is because they hope to become wealthy themselves one day, and think it is a realistic possibility. In order to get class warfare to florish in this country, that attitude must be snuffed out.
One way to do that is to raise the barriers to entry, by complicating business and making it more difficult to start up. Existing businesses must also be suppressed. The explosion of regulation and the high cost of employment have seen to that. Obamacare is custom-made for this purpose.
Another element is to ensure that the only path to success is through seeking favor with the government. There will be rich people, but folks have to know that the path to wealth is only open to politically connected insiders, and not to them.
Once people accept that they will not be able to elevate themselves to the levels of the rich, they can be induced to resent the rich, class warfare can thrive, and the revolution will be all but won.
What we need is a republican president who will appoint an Elliot Ness “type” to investigate the voter fraud and money laundering. Unfortunately, I don’t see one on the horizon.
A reasonable “rule of thumb” is that stupid people who make a series of decisions get some of them right by accident. The percentage depends largely on how many possible choices there are, for instance in an either or choice even a coin toss should produce the correct decision in half the cases over a long period. It appears to me that Obama NEVER makes the correct choice, therefor it cannot be a case of incompetence or stupidity. He is not very smart but someone is making his decisions for him and that someone is bent on destroying America and that someone knows what the correct choice is every time because otherwise they could not feed him the wrong choice every time. Can you name one decision of any importance that he has gotten right?