"... my general feeling is

"... my general feeling is that people are doing most things wrong regardless of their ability to convince themselves that they're actually doing most things right... but worse than that, amidst all this wrongness it seems to me that the bad guys are doing less wrong vis-à-vis their view of the world than we, the putative good guys, are doing vis-à-vis our view of the world... granted, given that Obama doesn't seem to have a clue what the fuck he's doing, our view of the world may be getting seriously short changed here... still, the depressing conclusion one might be tempted to draw is that Obama’s ineptness is simply a manifestation of what ails us and that consequently we could be entering a time when the forces for good may be operating at something of a disadvantage relative to the opposition, a disadvantage that is largely self-imposed, generated from within... history certainly abounds in turns of this sort...”