These problems would very likely not exist or be much smaller if liberals had never had any power in this country.
Obama is part of the problem because he is a liberal promoting liberal policies and agendas.
But obviously he was not the first or only liberal.
Bush was also a liberal just not as bad as Obama.
Bush did a few things right but there was plenty of liberalism in his policies, as well.
But to find the roots of the problem you’d probably have to go back to the early 1800’s or so.
President Andrew Jackson, warned us not to have paper money, for example.