Obama's policies are going to cost a lot of people a lot of money. Other people will do very nicely, thank you, if his policies are adopted, by helping administer them and/or by directly profiting from them. This is what politics is really all about.

Neither of these two opposing groups really gives a damn about the country, and if they do, it's because they have somehow convinced themselves the policy they will benefit from will benefit the entire commonwealth, and their opponents' won't.

Over half the people in the country have trusted Obama to be the one who decides, and have not only trusted his judgement on what to do, but his ability to make it happen. So be it.

Democracy is a crazy, unstable system, and there are no guarantees it will work. It destroyed Athens during the Pelepponesian Wars, and they were eventually defeated by brutal fascist thug state. But no body remembers Sparta as anything more than a bunch of bullies. Athens was the jewel in the crown of our civilization.

Democracy is the best we have, and I trust it. I think I could do a better job if I was dictator, but I suspect no one else would trust me with the task. I can't really fault them for that.

So democracy, tempered by the flywheel of a constitution, is our only feasible alternative. Any other system is only a surrender of our lives to the will of a minority. The details of exactly how we organize and administer our democracy really don't matter, its the general idea that works.

Democracy is a delphic system, i.e., in the absence of any "scientific" laws of government, we have no choice but to rely on the majority will of the people; we are counting on a statistical mechanics, not a Newtonian Physics, model of political space.

I trust Obama, he may not be the best possible man for the job, but he's the best of the two that ran. And the more I see of his opponents, the more I'm convinced I'm right.