[Buckeye McFrog]

A bit of hyperbole there methinks. In reality I expect Obamacare to be what really cripples this Presidency. That affects people in a very real and tangible way that will make them mad. Sadly most of the rabble don’t give a damn about a few dead diplomats, or what happens to people in some far-off Muslim hellhole.

[arthurus]

Obamacare will affect the AMerican population just as National Health affected the British. It was incorporated as a fait accompli, a fact of life, and it altered politics vastly. Now elections are run very much on who is viewed as more likely to reorient the "benefits" to individual voters' particular groups.

Very few want to dump the system. All fear killing the beast would cut them off from their medical treatment or, worse, they would have to return to paying for it.There is no awareness that they are paying far more for it in increased taxation and in loss of services than they would were they paying cash fee for services.

Uneducated people are the same there and here. We have not educated a large majority of our children for more than half a century. There is no knowledge of or sense of history, no way to judge whether something is likely to work based on what has worked or not in the past. The past, even the past that is within memory simply falls off the radar.