This is where we are

We are witnessing a complete breakdown in American civics.  In the President of the US, our putative leader, we are seeing a professional community organizer, trained by Saul Alinsky, who has no idea how to lead, how to govern, how to interact with others.  Instead we see on a daily basis, one who is adept at creating discord and divisions among the people in order to break down the existing order in society.  Once achieving this objective, the next step is to rebuild, transform, and restructure the civil society in the leader's vision of a just and fair one.  There is nothing new in this approach.  To some extent it has been subscribed to by progressives going back to Woodrow Wilson.  What is new is having a leader willing to literally destroy the existing order in order to put in place his particular vision of the right order.  Most earlier progressives believed in at least the bedrock American values based upon Christian ethics and at least a somewhat market based economy.  They were more interested in ameliorating or reforming what they viewed as the rough edges of the existing system but not necessarily in changing it wholesale.  The incumbent progressive leader clearly wants to replace market based capitalism with state controlled socialism.  There is simply no other way to interpret his rhetoric or actions.  In the end he is bent on wrecking and destroying the current structure in order to start fresh to create a society based upon the undefinable concept of social justice.  The only way to achieve this end is by collectivizing society and then dictating change.  I seriously doubt he can get away with this plan, however he can make life difficult for everyone in the attempt.