Why Adam Smith? He had to understand the economic thinking at the time in order to pervert it.
Also, in Alexis DeTocqueville's "Democracy in America," he spends the first few chapters describing the genius of the American experiment which is the township form of government. It is the closest to the people and it is where the people actually engage in self-government.
The early American experience of self-government is fundamental to America, not that other countries don't engage in it but it is what made America, America. All of our Founders began their political experience representing people or working at the township level of government.
To pull Americans away from that fundamental action and thinking is to destroy America at its heart.
Obama is merely providing the final chapter of Karl Marx's perverted thinking.
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