Unfortunately, you are correct. The mere fact that this Marxist SOB could even possibly be reelected makes me mourn as to what on earth has happened to our once great Republic?
Most people are followers, always have been and always will be. Were a majority of our citizens really ever all that great and smart? They voted for FDR 4 times in a row. FDR was a socialist and changed this country for the worse in ways we have never recovered from. Our supposedly "great" citizens also voted for LBJ and we got more socialism in the form of the Great Society. Americans also gave us Carter, probably the worst President in modern history. Obama is simply continuing that push towards the big nanny state. The sad fact is, it is basically what a majority of Americans probably want. They may be leery of it, they may still maintain some distrust of government, but at the end of the day socialism is a drug and the more people get the more they want.