So let me see if I understand the 2 biggest hot button topics on DU

[JackRiddler]

212. Your point upthread really impresses me...

for the combination of authoritarianism and naivete it shows. You don't think the US government would do what's it always done - find ways to neutralize its designated enemies abroad, if possible - because a) you think this would be entirely up to Obama and b) you can't bear the thought that he'd be responsible. This isn't systemic thinking, this is hero worship and soap opera.

Otherwise, I don't know who you think you're talking to. I wasn't among those high-fiving when "Obama kills Bin Laden," the former junior partner in the CIA operations in Afghanistan and presumably elsewhere. After all the talk about the mastermind of terror, I find it interesting their incursion didn't take him in for the precious information he could provide, but shot him and "buried him at sea."

I think based on your talk you might, as you suggest yourself, feel at home in the Tea Party. That's not really for me to judge. They are certainly not the only group who have noticed that the US government is corrupt and run on behalf of a small ruling class - as it has been throughout the country's history with a few notable exceptions such as the New Deal. Of course, they think some new historical epoch began with Obama, just like you do; only they think all the bad things started then. They are also notable for simultaneously being the strongest supporter of the government they believe to be corrupt when it undertakes domestic repression against certain groups (like African Americans) and goes on international kill-sprees. That's the kind of contradictory thinking your posts suggest you might feel at home with.