When logic fails, get back to a fight. Like a pep rally for a high-school football game, where even the ain’t-got-a-chance team believes it’s gonna win, Obama is carrying his emotional – forget logical – last stand to the “people.” And television dutifully carries it, rah, rah.
For a fight, you gotta have an enemy. And the enemy is… you guessed it. Big Business. In this case the insurance business. They caused it all. They raised the prices. They‘re robbing us all. Including their shareholders, who are often just plain people with IRAs and 401k plans.
They don’t take new clients who, for example, already have final-stage cancer. Never mind that the insurance company who did so would die right along with their clients if they practiced such madness. It’s a problem, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Obama Care will fix it. Nor that getting riled up in a pep rally will magically turn such a plan into a fix.
But, totally opposite Obama’s original plan to change Washington… the fight he used to get elected… his current plan of picking fights to get people riled up keeps America right in that hole of fighting over rather than solving the problems facing America.
Where’s the “we’ll all work together, across the aisle” now? Of course. Now we remember. All has fallen to political expediency. Just like always. Not even close to the fairyland he promised.
The question is, when will Americans stop falling for that “change Washington” line. It’s not just Obama. They’re all would-be saviors. Just not the Messiah of the Obama campaign.
When will we stop falling for it? For the celebrity appeal, the emotional appeal, the pep rally rush? As he’s fond of saying, if not now, when?
Could we… just could we… maybe before we find ourselves in a spiral of more and more uncontrollable debt, to the point where the recent financial melt-down seems like child’s play in comparison?
We won’t be able to spend our way out of that one.
