The Obama administration is hiring a “Behavioral Insights Team” in order to tweak and alter people’s behavior without them noticing. Such dark shenanigans are referred to as “nudges,” the term deriving from Obama’s fellow traveler Cass Sunstein. The problem with this is manifest:
“‘Ultimately, nudging … assumes a small group of people in government know better about choices than the individuals making them.’
“And sometimes… government actually promotes the wrong thing.”

At first this might seem odd, since Obama has often said that “the government is us,” and expressed the sentiment that everything he does is legitimate because the people elected him, as well as how he is but expressing the volonté générale, because that is what the people want.
Why, then, would Obama need to “nudge” the people to accept his agenda, if it was the embodiment of their will that he is divining like an auger poking through rooster guts?










