I have never seen a more cynical Administration in my lifetime. Bill Clinton, being the pragmatist that he was and is, reformed entitlements. Obama is trying to reverse everything he did.
I look at Obama, and what I see is someone whose every waking hour is devoted to keeping and increasing power. He devotes NO thought to policy issues, to what will actually work, what will actually help real people, because he literally cannot separate his ego projections of omniscience from reality. He literally believes that because he, Barack Obama, favors something, it must perforce be good, and therefore need not be questioned. He didn’t need to know what was in the Obamacare act. It had his name on it.
His world is very simple: all good flows from him, and all evil from his opponents. The point of politics is the enhancement of his ego by getting things passed with his name on them, and gradually edging out all other names and ideas. He can’t rule forever, but he can ensure that his ideological descendants keep and enhance their power. That is his goal, at any rate.
Nowhere in the system does anyone look outside the system, other than to gauge the winds to see what words people want to hear, and who needs to be paid what for their support or silence. The thing is pure narcissism, start to finish.
One can almost look sympathetically at Boss Tweed. He was just trying to live the good life, and he enjoyed the rough and tumble of politics. He liked people, and he liked himself. But he did not labor under the illusion that it was his mission to “fundamentally transform” anything. He had a comfortable status quo, everybody around him got taken care of, and the city really wasn’t that bad a place.
There is nothing warm or comfortable about what Barack Obama has planned. It will be a disaster.
And thinking about it, his main goal in life is the enhancement of his ego. That is the goal, and even when America is vastly less powerful, and wallowing in long term poverty, if he is relatively important, as Fidel Castro is in his clusterfuck of a nation, that is acceptable.
These are awful, awful people, with literally NOTHING redeeming about them. They break what they touch, and they don’t care.
I really hope the tide turns today.