This Long-ass post is directed towards Quicksand-T, so everyone else feel free to ignore it
In response to what I've bolded, you don't have to be a right-wing polemic, but you kind of do have to be an American. I'm going to put that on the table and come back to it after I make a lot of clarification as to why I feel that way.
This game looks crazy good (emphasis on the crazy), and I will be playing the hell out of it and likely enjoying it no matter how I feel about your motivations for creating it. I read the Patrick Dugan review and he hit on what seemed like your "big idea" for this game, albeit an obvious one, that the Messianic Obama head leading the spastic children (we call em' retards here) to their deaths is a thinly veiled metaphor for what's happened to my generation ever since we invested all of our aspirations and political faith in one man and one man alone. What I think you're missing is that is the fault of the spastic children for being politically naive and expecting a messiah to change the world for them instead of trying to change it themselves, and that perhaps the spastic children deserve to die. I still firmly believe Obama is a good man is a profession that is not conductive to good men, and that means the more morally flexible elements of the American government get to retain their stranglehold. It's a much more complex situation than "America Dumb, America Elect Evil Raven King With Big Ears Because He Talk Nice, America Get Screwed, Silly America." He inherited the end of the worst decade ever and people gave him shit because he couldn't pull off an FDR first 100 days, and then the media and the right wingers called him a communist whenever he actually tried. America screwed America, Obama is as powerless as the rest of us without real support and trust, and I think people who can't see that are fooling themselves. It's easy to take that stance when you're not living here, and I know that the whole world, especially the West, has to live with America's politics and culture to some degree, but it's not the same. I could watch the Canadian news all day and learn about all your Ministers and shit, but I'd never really get to know the voters, would I? You know what I mean?
And look, THE PRESIDENT, THE ELECTED OFFICIALS, THE CHURCHES, THE BANKS, THE MEDIA, THE JOBS, MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS, AND THE MILITARY, are not out to get us. These are all institutions, composed of individuals, and individuals have a right to agendas and opinions just like THE PEOPLE. By and large the only generalization I'd agree with here is that multinational corporations can can eat giant shit-flavored dick. But nobody has trusted the sharks since the economy collapsed, and I didn't trust them before. It doesn't matter if we trust them, they can do whatever the fuck they want. They hold all the money and all the power in the world, and our inability to trust banks, media, and elected officials stems from their infinite capacity to pay people off. Jobs go away in an economic downturn. Tough shit. It's not a conspiracy. And I don't know why we wouldn't be able to trust the military. I trust the military to kill people I don't necessarily disagree with in order to end a war I definitely do. That's their job description. Sure, there have been some sketchy ass cover-ups, but War is not a perfect science, you made a great game about it. I'm not trying to justify any of our numerous war crimes, but it's a slippery slope between soldiers losing control of a situation, or their minds, and martial law. People think the United States is headed towards Fascism. It's not. That's the fucking stupidest thing I've ever heard. The world is headed towards fascism lead by business, but the American people would never let their freedom get taken away. Spreading conspiratorial thinking just makes people paranoid and they focus on the "What if's?" instead of the numerous "What now's?" the President is trying desperately to answer with no help from... anyone. The reason for all the secrecy in the government is to maintain the illusion that they have some giant conspiratorial edge on us. Did you actually read the Cablegate Wikileaks? The scariest thing in there was that Shell Oil basically owns Nigeria and that has very little to do with the US government. It actually brings me to my final point, which is that a great deal of the world's problems and without a doubt its inability to solve them can be traced to the "ding ding" reckless arrogance of multinational corporations. If you want a conspiracy, find the nearest Coke can.
Okay, now assuming you knew all that because you're clearly an intelligent person, there's the question of why you started with symbolic imagery and then veered off into nihilistic surrealism (based off screenshots, I could be full of shit). I'm all for edgy acidic political satire, but it seems you started off with with the "big idea" and then just turned the game into your design playground while filling it with incendiary images. And I call them "incendiary" because there are people getting shot here now for less. I mean, why is Obama's head on a cock? It's bizarre and punk and all, but why? I know your intentions are innocent, but a lot of the Americans playing this game won't understand that, and there's already far too much white noise out there surrounding our President. I'm not talking about people being offended, I'm talking about people taking all of your game seriously instead of just the parts that ought to be. I suppose there's some degree of Freudian symbolism in mounting faces on cocks, but I've seen ignorant, not stupid, but ignorant compatriots say scary things because they're surrounded with misleading imagery. Just realize that you're playing with fire, one, and two, it's not your fire to play with if you make these games out of an eclectic appreciation for "Americana" and not a genuine sense of emotional attachment to a nation on the verge of... something, and a desire to help it get there.
And just to clarify, I fall on the very very socialist, but loves freedom area of the political spectrum, and it took me a while but I really do love my country and I can't bring myself to be too cynical about a place with a spirit like this. So I'm what you'd call an oddity. I don't fit any stereotype well, and that's another reason that it just strikes me as odd that a Canadian is satirizing American politics because an outsider's view would be typically defined by those stereotypes and they're less common. The vast majority of America thinks like Jon Stewart. They may not have his politics, but they're discerning like him. Just keep that in mind. It's the crazy people who get news coverage, on left and right, who I'm worried might play your game (which despite all of my admittedly weird reservations will be awesome) and pervert it somehow. I really want to play this game though, it looks awesome. And I'm probably full of shit, I'm kind of having a bad week. Don't change a thing, just don't underestimate how much shit might hit the fan if your game does get really popular.
Other people on the thread, feel free to simply disagree with me, threaten to cut my pinko heart out, accuse me of being a stop-having a fun guy (I totally am) or just ignore me completely.