The plan is, if you read into the article and O's stated purpose of transforming America, of de-Americanizing the world economy. When that happens, what (or which state) will take its place? Connect the dots, Maph. They lead to the same conclusion unless we stop it. America will become a second (or third) rate nation, with the world having a boot on its throat and looted of every resource we once owned. If such a thing happens, the ivory tower inhabitants will be the first to fall. The realists will have prepared and have a fallback position from which to survive. "..inadvertently implementing bad policies." Do you not hear the contradiction in that phrase? Whose policies? And there was nothing inadvertent about it. If they were not meant to be implemented, why were they promulgated in the first place? If the plethora of Executive Orders signed in the last 5 years were not meant to be implemented, why were they crafted? Connect the dots.