Others are suggesting that he's trying to do too much too fast, but that implies that slowly annihilating our finances would have been OK. I don't think so. I think had he been more moderate in his approach to these same statist goals, his slide would have been slower, but would have ended in the same place.
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Here's what I don't get: what did all those people who voted for him expect? Has anything he's done been a surprise? Only to people who weren't paying attention during the election. I resist the ever-present urge to think of my fellow American voters as slow-witted targets for carnival barkers, but it's getting harder and harder.
Jeff, I don't think most people pay that close attention to it. They watch their favorite sports or TV shows and play with their kids and live their lives unlike those of us who marinate in this stuff. I'd suggest the American people are quite good at whatever it is they're interested in. It's just that politics aren't that big of a deal to most of them. Witness the failure of Obama to rally the youth of America to his causes.
KT, precisely. That is why we are seeing these townhall uprisings this past month and also explains why we are seeing Organizing for America, or whatever they are calling themselves this moment, advertising on Craig's List.
Keeping politics off our bodies suddenly hit a tipping point this summer.
The genius of a constitutional republic is that people shouldn't have to pay particularly close attention to politics, because it's outcome does not have the capacity to wreck our daily lives. That it now does is an indictment of how far removed we are from the original restraints the constitution put on government.
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