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There's no wishing there, only educated guessing of the type that informs my voting proclivities. I may not be Vonnegut, but when I get to wishing, I have a good deal more imagination, (to say nothing of more ambition!).
As to your complaint,
Obama's "incremental changes" will do little to forestall the potential for "social unrest and upheaval"
What you are missingis that "visionary leadership that attempts to get out in front of these problems" do not anywhere in the historical record, jump out of a briar patch. You simply don't get transformative 'visionary' leadership out of non-descript periods of relative peace & prosperity, such as we have had and still have. To be aware of the type of problems that are bearing down on this nation at this moment is to be flabbergasted at the state of the concurrant political discourse. They- politicians, media elite and other sanctioned leaders, and hence the broader populace- simply don't get it, and the last won't sign off on radical change before those truths become self-evident, as they will directly, (The global economy is going to get much much worse, many more jobs are going to be lost. At some point, the integrity of our currency, the global reserve currency, may come into disrepute. Should that happen, the Great Depression with its bread lines and 25% unemployment wouldn't be the half of it).
"that's hardly the visionary leadership I'd been led to understand Obama represents." Hey, if you're succeptible to marketing slogans, I'll wager you're used to being deceived.
@onedelette, Iranian 'root culture' has led to resentments from its East as well as West. The moguls spread it in that direction much as the Romans did the other.
