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This guy, whomever he may be, thinks Obama may be launching a campaign to draw Main Street's attention to the sharp contrast between Democrats, who are trying to conduct the people's business, and Republicans, who have no goal other than to prevent the majority party from governing.Well, maybe. If so, then Obama is beginning a thrilling gambit in his game of 10-dimensional chess --- maybe analogous to deliberately ceding the lead to the other team at halftime, then launching the third quarter with an onside kick and blinding touchdown drive that leaves the bad guys befuddled and deflated. And the crowd goes wild.
In order for this hypothetical tactic to work any magic, congressional Democrats in both chambers would have to get behind the quarterback and mash some Republican heads without worrying about how it might look to the Washington Post editorial board. In other words, the President and congressional Democrats would have to start ruthlessly working on a constructive agenda so regular people could have a taste of what progressive good government has to offer in contrast to the zombie Reagan agenda.
Nope, I don't see it happening. Just expecting more 1-dimension tiddly winks as usual, as Big Hussein Otis has called it.
It could well be that it's too late for the government (the elected part of it) to accomplish what they are sent to do. Obama's dancing around to keep from over-agitating big business make it clear he's aware who is really in charge now. If what "the people" wanted was the driving force then there would be some second thoughts about blatantly opposing it, as all Republicans feel free to do now, and a growing number of cornpone Democrats.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans are dragging out their entirely discredited nonsense about privatizing social security and Medicare not because they think they can sell it-- but because they know their masters (corporations) are covering their backs.
Obama plays nice with the criminals heading the big banks because he knows they're really the ones calling the shots. Unfortunately, no matter what he does, they aren't going to let him be their Mussolini.
See the movie Network for a cogent explanation who's in charge now.
BO: I don't think it's as simple as any one cabal of supervillains controlling everything. Mob rule would be a horrible thing for all of us, but the people who have the most to lose from it are people who think their gated communities will protect them. Over the past year I've seen a number of reports for which the "news hook" was a statement by a member of the financial or corporate elite lashing out about being "vilified" by the populist sentiment. To them, it's all so very unseemly. But their highly evolved ideas about where they fit into the ecosystem will be trumped by the mob anytime. That's one reason why corporate bosses are so terrified of "labor."
ReplyDeleteTyranny never prospers over the long run. Chaos may hold sway for longer periods, but order re-emerges in places where the gene pool hasn't become a cesspool. Whatever dark age we might arguably be entering, I don't see how it would last for centuries. Because not every nation in the world will merrily follow the U.S.A. into the abyss. The trick may be to figure out which ones....