I'm not overly optimistic, just hopeful.
Like you, I fear the transformation O'bama promised us has reached the stage where mind-numbed voters can no longer distinguish reality from insanity.
Then again, I reflect on how poorly O'bama Care, "stimulus", "reset" and virtually everything else he promised has gone, and I'm hopeful that they've done just as poorly with "transforming" America's soul.
Obama is a reflection of America's already-transformed soul; feckless, lazy, immoral, degenerate, ungrateful, envious. In other words, a soul with a communist world-view.