(With Thanks to John Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Bill Wilson)
Despite the petulant PollyAnna nattering of (allegedly) Leftist pundits, it is now obvious President Obama will never stand up to the Republicans – precisely because that is excluded from the job description of what the Ruling Class hired him to do.
If we look objectively at his Barack-the-Betrayer record, Obama's dual function – as the ultimate destroyer of any last remnants of U.S. humanitarian movements and the perfect hate-catalyst for U.S. racism – becomes undeniably clear.
In other words, the Betrayer's assigned purpose is to enable the Republican victories that will transform the (former) United States into the de facto Fourth Reich, thereby fulfilling what has been the GOPorkers' primary objective at least since the GOP/Mussolini and GOP/Hitler collaborations of the late 1920s and the 1930s.
Given Obama's obvious intelligence and erudition, no other explanation is possible.
Indeed no politician of his capabilities could “bungle” so ruinously unless the “bungling” were deliberate.
The Teabaggers' Ku Klux Karicature of Obama as Hitler thus contains – no doubt accidentally – a subtle element of revelation. Like the death-panel scare now confirmed by the Presidential Deficit Commission's lethal war on elderly, disabled, unemployed and otherwise impoverished people, the reference to Nazism contains just enough intuitive truth to further poison the already toxic effluvium of Moron Nation's (entirely legitimate) fears of looming dictatorship – even as maliciously misdirected as these fears are by Rightist demagoguery.
Not that we weren't warned.
Exactly as I predicted, the breathtaking betrayal implicit in Obama's appointment of the notorious theocrat Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation – the equivalent of the keynote address at a political convention – has since characterized the Betrayer's entire administration.
Warren's role as a preacher of tyrannocapitalist gospel – wealth as divine reward, poverty as divine punishment – anticipated all of the Betrayer's economic policies including the final and permanent disenfranchisement of the U.S. Working Class inflicted by the Obama-imposed death of Employee Free Choice.
Beyond that, Warren's misogyny and homophobia foretold at least two of Obama's most outrageous betrayals: his multiple betrayals of women via the travesty labeled "health care reform" and his betrayal of homosexuals via Big Lies and the constant sleight-of-hand treachery to ensure Don't Ask Don't Tell remains the eternally hatemongering law of an ever more obviously hateful plutocracy.
Meanwhile Obama's own refusal to restore the Bill of Rights – indeed his expansion of its nullification to include a presidential right to murder on whim – has laid the now-irreversible groundwork for the zero-tolerance Christian theocracy Warren and his ilk seek to impose on the United States.
Presidents are thus given the Hitler-power to exterminate anyone who dares criticize their policies.
What a President Palin would do with such authority is the stuff of nightmares.
Lastly and in a sense that goes far beyond the symbolic, Obama's opening the inaugural door to Warren's ChristiaNazi theology is a perfect analogy for the manner in which the president has subsequently opened the doorways to the imposition of the tyrannocapitalist state: absolute power and unlimited profit for the Ruling Class, bottomless poverty and total subjugation via zero-tolerance theocracy for all the rest of us, with presidential death squads ever vigilant to eliminate any dissidents.
Again as I have so many times written (in comments on Common Dreams and Huffington Post and several other such sites before I began this blog in late 2009), the appointment of Warren was the dollar-sign-and-Jesucross banner of tyrannocapitalist theocracy raised on the electoral equivalent of Mount Suribachi – Obama's message of triumph to his financiers: the Wall Street robber barons who gave him twice as much in de facto bribes as they gave McPalin.
Wake up, folks. The Betrayer is not serving the people; he is providing the plutocrats with everything they ever wanted.
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As most of you know, I too fell prey to the imbecility of hope and voted for “change we can believe in” only to discover that the one genuine “yes we can” applicable to Obama is the applause of the tyrannocapitalist Ruling Class – this to celebrate the final victories in its relentless campaign to kill the American Experiment in constitutional democracy and replace it with theocratic fascism.
Think not just Adolf Hitler (and his hand-in-glove relationship with Christian authority) but more specifically Mussolini (who defined fascism as absolute rule by the Big Business aristocracy) plus of course Spain's Franco and Chile's Pinochet.
The domestic archetype for this sort of tyranny is the post-Civil War South, where the deliberately induced hateful ignorance of the white Christian multitudes – the prototype of Moron Nation – proved to be the perfect barrier against organized labor and all other forms of humanitarianism.
Note too the genteel euphemism for the Ku Klux Klan, the original U.S. death squad and storm-trooper organization: “the Saturday Night Men's Bible Study Class.”
But even these increasingly obvious forerunners fail to describe the unprecedented Machiavellian guile of what history will no doubt eventually label the Obama Ploy: Ruling Class selection (as proven by the financial details of the 2008 campaign) of a faux-liberal candidate whose victory would simultaneously destroy the humanitarian Left and re-energize the theocratic white racist Right, thereby – and this it seems is Obama's key function – re-creating the psychological conditions of despair and rage that (in combination with economic hopelessness) led to the downfall of Weimar Germany and the rise of Nazism.
The destruction of the humanitarian Left here in Moron Nation was much easier than in Germany simply because here the Left's ideological solidarity had long ago been destroyed by the post-World-War-II purges – a capitalism-as-usual event falsely portrayed as an anomaly by clever association with Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.
In point of fact, the purges began the moment the war ended and continued well into the 1960s, long after McCarthy's death. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg head its list of martyrs.
Reinforced by Ruling Class control of education and mass media, these purges not only destroyed the once-formidable Communist and socialist movements but made even the term “intellectual” synonymous with “traitor” and “subversive,” thereby breeding the reflexive anti-intellectuality that has since become our identifying national characteristic.
This induced anti-intellectuality is no accident: it is precisely the condition that guarantees no binding Leftist ideology – and therefore no humanitarian solidarity – will ever again arise in the United States.
Thus Moron Nation: the self-sustaining, easily manipulated realm of ever-deepening ignorance, despair, racism and generalized hatefulness characteristic of the U.S. Working Class today.
Thus too the ruinous one-two knockout-punch aftermath of the 2008 election. One, the few remaining humanitarian elements, already forever robbed of ideological solidarity, now so embittered by betrayal they are reduced to the ultimate disenfranchisement of shock-doctrine paralysis. Two, the always-dominant white racists brought out of their proverbial closet, agitated to lynch-mob woman-stomping rage and encouraged to run amok precisely as in the recent Republican landslide.
The associated cunning of the Obama Ploy reeks of manipulative genius far beyond the diabolical brilliance of Josef Goebbels. But its stench is not so much of psychological warfare as of Madison Avenue marketing and capitalism's perennial quest (via behaviorism) for the perfect, one-size-fits-all motivational symbol or figurehead.
It cannot be said too often that no other explanation suffices – especially given Obama's obvious erudition and intelligence.
There remains only the vital question of how much longer will it take the Ruling Class to push Moron Nation the short final distance to an all-white ChristiaNazi theocracy – that is, how much time do we have to organize our escape from Holocaust II: the Fourth Reich's subsequent lynching of minorities and dissidents.
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As to Barack the Betrayer's personal motives, of course we can only speculate, though I suspect he believes his service to the Ruling Class will protect himself and his family – especially his family – from the racist horrors inevitably to come: never mind the dire fate of the tiny handful of aristocratic German Jews who fatally sought to guarantee their own survival by collaboration with the Nazi authorities.
I also suspect Obama might privately rationalize his behavior as facilitating a kind of backhanded karmic vengeance for the long and bloody U.S. history of genocidal murder: the white Working Class majority thus reduced to the inescapable poverty and zero-tolerance subjugation hitherto inflicted only on people of color.
Whatever. The one sure fact is that tyrannocapitalism's Obama Ploy has slain the American Experiment beyond resuscitation, just as its now-obviously permanent policy of “Jobless Recovery” reveals the American Dream to have never been anything more than a Big Lie.
Verily, the prophecies of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels are thus fulfilled.
LB/12 November 2010.
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