Exactly. It is tragic how many don't get it, even "conservatives." There is this phenomenon where people only think in terms of other singular people: "the dumb think in terms of people, the mediocre think in terms of events, and the intelligent think in terms of ideas."
Barack Obama is a front man, a pretty good one in terms of verbal presence, for a really really sinister cabal which wants to keep the populace dependent, and deconstruct the US to a mediocre static state; bread and circuses. It can be called "fascism," "communism," "socialism," but is authoritarianism in any case, and everything the United States was not founded to be.
Not that the energetic and imaginative motivators of our economy do not understand this, which is why the economy plummets, but this is not the majority of voters. The young (college types) simply do not know better, but I blame the old, the AARP etc. who, having lived through the twentieth century, should. (and the Republican Party of course, totally complicit.)
Tragic; right before our very eyes. It could have been all different.
Johnny Suntrade
Nope. It was preordained - not by doG, but by nature, to be this way. Humanity cannot avoid entropy - without absolutely constant vigilance & effort, all social institutions begin to mutate and eventually collapse.
Think about it: at some point in the future, the USA was going to fail. Would it have been 500 years? 100 years? Or 5 years? What would be the precipitating cause(s)?
Really smart operators who know the basics of physics and have no specific allegiance to any place or culture have made fantastic fortunes playing this bet.
We can now see the results firsthand. But even the top dogs can misplay hands. Our only hope at this point is to allow the process to accelerate past the planned/controlled stage so that even the power-elite are caught by surprise.
It's what happened in 1776, and again in 1789. Let us hope the next time works out once again to the benefit of the People.