I disagree in one regard, when you say “nearly everyone” will see Obama for what he is.
We are fractured.
We are polarized.
I have seen this since GW Bush’s first election.
I do not know the raw numbers, but there is a large group of us freedom-loving conservatives, with all the trimmings. We could be from 25% to 40%. We distrust the government and want it small enough to not pose a threat when tempted.
Our size and number is countered by a similarly sized block of socialists, even if they don’t use the word. The call themselves liberals, mostly, but they love big government, high taxes, lots of regulations, lots of government interference. They honestly do. Many are on entitlements. Many are successful middle-class professionals with a misplaced compassion. They are as large a spectrum as we are.
They too run some 25% to 40% of the nation.
As a result, there is a large block on one side or other of 1/3 of the nation who sees Obama and loves what they see and support him to the hilt.
So when you said you think everyone will soon see Obama for what he is, I say, no — we are only talking about a small portion of the nation — some independent, or casual or apathetic, or wishy washy middle of the country who hasn’t or can’t take sides, for whatever reason.
We the conservatives see Obama and hate that he is implementing George Soros’s plan for France-style socilism as an interim to outright communism.
The liberal/socialists do see Obama pushing Socialism AND THEY LIKE IT, even as they don’t know it by name or where it will lead, in their profound ignorance.
It is only the 10% or 20% or 30% of the wishy washy middle independent voters we need to awaken to the damage the socialists will cause America. They are our potential allies. That 1/3 liberal/socialist portion of Americans are out sworn, mortal enemies and we will go to our graves fighting each other for the soul of the nation — free or communist slaves.
I had one and ONLY one mild HOPE for waking the idiot liberal/socialists, and that was, if the current Depression got severe enough, the working class among these idiots might see the damage the massive government redistribution of wealth was doing to harm their families, and might open their eyes to eventual Conservatism.
The freeloaders love getting their “Obama money” so the voters among them are going to pull the “D” lever for life.
I had hoped that Depression era suffering would awaken some of the working class liberal idiots in San Francisco, Seattle, Manhattan, Chicago, Atlanta, etc. to the cultural death that socialism brings.
During the American Revolution,
the active forces in the field against the King’s tyranny
never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists.
They were in turn actively supported by perhaps 10% of the population.
In addition to these revolutionaries were perhaps another 20%
who favored their cause but did little or nothing to support it.
Another one-third of the population sided with the King.
By the end of the war there were actually more Americans
fighting for the King than there were in the field against him.
The final third took no side,
and blew with the wind and took whatever came.