What will the United States of America be like after Barack Obama leaves the presidency on January 20, 2017 (assuming he does leave)?
Five days before the 2008 election, Obama declared he would "fundamentally transform" America. Obama has done much to fulfill that promise since January 20, 2009. If he completes his agenda, the U.S. will be very much like a European-style welfare state.
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Obama is responsible for increasingly polarized and violence-plagued race relations. As a bi-racial presidential candidate in 2007-08, many naïvely believed that Obama's election would soothe racial antagonisms, and possibly even end racial discord.
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…Any lingering doubts about where Obama's racial loyalties lay should have been erased by his comment that "[i]f I had a son, he would look like Trayvon" after Martin was killed in 2012.
Some believe that race relations are more fraught with the potential for rioting and black-on-white crime that at any time since the wave of riots that scorched and convulsed American cities in the late 1960s.
Other changes that Obama has imposed on America's domestic condition are so well-known that the briefest mention suffices. The central government's power has grown tremendously under Obama. If Obamacare takes effect on January 1, 2014, and Republican elites' fecklessness insures it will, an additional one-sixth of the American economy will come under government control.
Obama may or may not be a socialist, but he certainly is a collectivist. Obamians use regulations and government diktats to impose their will on economic activity and personal lives. If Obama imposes "cap-and-trade," expect the price of anything requiring energy to skyrocket. The entrepreneur who eschews reliance on government is increasingly supplanted by the crony capitalist feeding at the public trough. During his presidency, government agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, have been thoroughly politicized.
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