I like your ruminations. It would be another form of election management as I think the crash of 2008 was.
The following is an excerpt from an old link about FDR and the New Deal. It is ALL happening again. The ENTIRE article can be related to various things that Obama has done in office. And can perhaps foretell things that he will do.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts
“There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.
There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, “Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don’t watch out.”
These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago he wrote of what can happen within the form, when “one thing takes the place of another, so that the ancient laws will remain, while the power will be in the hands of those who have brought about revolution in the state.”
Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.
But it could not be so embarrassed and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, it never intended to make that kind of sense, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the American scheme. It took off from a revolutionary base.
The design was European. Regarded from the point of view of revolutionary technic it made perfect sense. Its meaning was revolutionary and it had no other. For what it meant to do it was from the beginning consistent in principle, resourceful, intelligent, masterly in workmanship, and it made not one mistake....
“It would be another form of election management as I think the crash of 2008 was.”
The crash wasn’t fake. It was the predictable result of the collapse of the housing bubble. Some of us here at FR had been warning for at least a couple of years that something was seriously wrong in the housing and mortgage market and that big trouble was headed our way. ex-Texan is a poster who spotted the problem quite early.