Analyst's note:  Representing less than 20% of the population, the hardcore left now has a virtual stranglehold on the self-centered, whose personal pleasure and egocentrism is the primary driving force in their lives. They are now completely in the thrall of the left.  Read on to see what has this blind loyalty has wrought.

[....] The management of many large corporations as well as numerous successful business owners, entrepreneurs, and inheritors of wealth refused to understand that as in all protection rackets, there is never an end to the demand for payment.  Additionally, these dupes were funding a political party whose end-game was to destroy the system that made them successful in the first place.  All the while the money being siphoned out of the economy by the government in order to establish a so-called "safety net" was being used to create an ever-expanding dependent class who would vote to keep the left in power.

The Obama administration represents the culmination of this process, as leftists have, through an avalanche of mandates, regulations, and laws, begun weaving a suffocating web around the American free market, as they assume complete control of the economy.  Firmly in their clutches will be those who fall into the ever-changing definition of rich and successful.

[....] Barack Obama would not be occupying the Oval Office if it were not for the people over the past sixty years who have blindly supported those who have lied to them.  The overriding stratagem of socialism/Marxism is "the ends justify the means" -- thus, no lie is too big to tell, no promise too outrageous to promote, and no tactic out of bounds.  The overall strategy of the Obama re-election team confirms this mindset as it conducts a demagogic campaign based solely on emotional appeals to that part of the population its operatives consider "useful idiots."

Those who thoughtlessly supported the left in America over the years are beginning to reap what they have sown.  Unfortunately so is the rest of the population.