I do not understand why so many progressives and modern-day liberals have of late come out with their discontent with the Obama administration. It is true that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue and that the Guantanamo terrorist prison remains open, but these are ephemeral matters compared to Obama's enormous achievements in your cause. Obama was your promised dreamboat and, less than 2 years into his first term, he has delivered for you beyond measure.
First, there was of course the trillion dollar stimulus bill. This measure alone, achieved within weeks of his inauguration, moved about 7% of the economy out of private decision making and into your hands in the government, state and federal combined. Much of this shift moved the baselines of future spending, so it is likely to be permanent. That alone, even without any of Obama's later achievements, undid and more all the baby steps towards individual control and private choice achieved by all Republican administrations and congressional majorities since Reagan. It totally and unambiguously restored all your power over the U.S. citizens back to its peak and more.
Second, and even more momentous, he delivered your health care bill. This bill will, as intended, achieve for all practical purposes a nationalization of the health care industry. Within a few years doctors, nurses, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry and even insurance companies—if they are permitted to continue to exist in some form—will be as totally within your control and at your mercy as all components of the education industry are today. Everybody in this entire sector, constituting about one sixth of all economic endeavors in the nation, will be your client, dependent on your largess for their prosperity or even survival, as teachers and teachers' unions are today. Realizing this, they will turn out en masse whenever you need their votes, their money, and their support to take over another sector of the economy.
Third, all of this has happened within less than two years. With any luck, you will achieve the same degree of Gleichschaltung in the financial industry. But even if you do not, it seems almost inconceivable that any effective resistance to your power will remain in this nation. Thanks to Obama and his Congress, you have achieved your long-sought goal of permanently ending this nation's tradition of liberty and limited government. From the Obama administration onward, you have achieved total power and there will be nothing which you cannot control. You will be able to impose your will and your choices on the helot citizenry on every matter.
So why the discontent? The only answer I can think of is tactical. It is likely that your party will encounter a political setback in the elections in a few months. Perhaps you do not want to be too jubilantly associated with it on that day. But this will be at most a minor setback in your project and spitting on the hand that achieved so much for you is a shabby thing.
