Why is there an undercurrent of continuing malaise in the nation's population, with no real 'bounce-back' to the 'happy days!' we usually see post-recession, you ask? Because, David Brooks, we still have an American neo-socialist holding forth from the White House. The mood you sense could be termed the 'John Galt Effect', a push-back by this nation's economic engineers (businessmen) against the promised and seemingly being delivered "CHANGE" we're seeing. Will there be no more of the 'happy days!' Americans cherish? No, I think not, because we are under a tremendous cloud of despair, and daily news brings us nothing but more economic and social storm noises: the Chinese threatening to sell off their American debt; gasoline prices surging to $5 and $6 per gallon (as Mr. Obama told us they would, as he approved of raising energy prices before he was elected, to stifle 'global warming'); public-sector unions demanding what is 'theirs', even if it can't realistically be paid for (and this new union alignment with far-left versions of socialism; witness the raised fist and 'solidarity!' iconography on their protest signs, and their demagoguery of 'rich' people like the Koch brothers...where would these unionists work, if not for industrialists? oh, right, the Government). Oh, and witness Brian Becker, a 'revolutionary' socialist no doubt emboldened by Mr. Obama's tacit approval of all things socialistic, who spoke this weekend, wanting access to junior high students for early indoctrination purposes.
These, and many more troubling news items, are just the freshest stab wounds to our nation's psyche. We are figuratively bleeding to death from thousands of these unhealed wounds. We have no national leader capable of healing the wounds; it seems Mr. Obama can only cause fresh wounds.
There's a very well-marked line Mr. Obama crossed while promoting America's trial-sized version of Socialism. Yes, ours is a hybrid version that's likely destined to be very short-lived, given the fiscal meltdown that's lurching ever closer. Can you not see the spectacular debt, the monstrous compounding interest that's owed on that debt, the failing dollar, and our shrinking pool of oil? What's coming along right behind this experimental version of American Socialism, post-trainwreck, is more like what we've already seen in past experiments in full-blown socialism: failure. There's never been a time-tested, successful version of socialism that hasn't failed. Many times the failure has been spectacular, with great loss of life.
Barack Obama speaks with a silver tongue, channeling Wesley Mouch, but he fails to extrapolate far enough ahead in time to realize the shortsightedness of his great, but out-of-reach, and doomed, expectations. Or maybe he does see the train wreck coming, but doesn't care.
There's the source of our gloom and despair, Mr. Brooks.
