I wearied of my incomprehension. As I could not change the incidents, “the givens,” I reanalyzed them to determine what I was looking at. And then I recognized the phenomenon. It is known as an Open City. Obama was a Marxist and Islamist opportunist; all his acts are recognizable as attempts to increase his personal power in order to achieve his personal and ideological goals. He himself proclaimed that he had no interest in America as it existed, and he wanted it changed, and worked to do so.