2016 Elections

[Aroura]

History will have to judge whether Obama was 

1. ...a tragically naive idealist who thought he could heal the divides of the nation if he was just nice enough, 
   
2. ....an inept product of the Peter Principle (promoted up to a level beyond his abilities, brilliant at state level politics but in over his head at the Federal level) or 
   
3. ...an ingenious 5th column agent secretly working for the Republican Party. 
   

I'm not enough of a conspiracy theorist to actually embrace #3 but you know, it would explain a lot. After all, he took a roaring progressive movement that gave him the White House and overwhelming majorities in both houses facing a GOP that was disgraced after the economic and foreign policy disasters and within two years he managed to thoroughly marginalize and demoralize liberals, gave the GOP room to regroup and revive and covered up for the abuses of the previous administration. He couldn't have done a better job if he really was acting as a 5th columnist. 

I completely agree.  I do not, for whatever reason, feel lied to.  I feel like he really was number 1 or 2.  It has to happen, that people really do think they can make a difference, but working in a broken a corrupt system causes them to become broken and corrupt, or just realize they aren't cut out for it but can't back out at that point.  Look at Jimmy Carter.  Or Eva Perone.

History will tell, and it depends on who will write that history as well.