Perhaps that explains his enthusiasm for Islamism and jihadism: He recognizes in Islam and jihad, in common with Winston Churchill, one of the great engines of impoverishment in world history.
I think that in everything he does, Obama consciously fosters and accentuates poverty, by design.
That’s called “miserification.” You make them miserable so that then they’re ready to accept anything you say.
That’s one of the reasons that all Communist takeovers have first killed the people who were actually helping the poor. This was true in Latin America (where the Sendero Luminoso, FARC, etc. always attacked aid workers, particularly those from Catholic or local groups) and in Europe as well. When the Communists took over in Spain, some of the first people they put to death were the priests, religious and laypeople who were running schools and cooperative programs in poor neighborhoods.