socrattt, your post was a rant of the type that pops up quite often here. It starts out with a rational observation/premise then decends into a diatribe.
Nobody can long focus on the housing bubble and not come to realize its a credit bubble with a housing symptom. Furthermore you can’t understand the credit bubble unless you get off your fixation on high RE prices and explore other bubbles.
As to Obama, remember it was a binary choice. I voted for him not because I had much hope, but because the other guy was worse. Your simple minded view of politics says a lot, but none of it has much to do with your initial premise which was that this site has morphed from just being about RE, to being about the wider bubbled out world we live in.
