[Peace-discuss] What we've been saying...

[C. G. Estabrook]

The Fraud of the Two Party System has been exposed. Can we stop playing along now?
By: debbierlus Saturday July 9, 2011 2:20 pm

The writing is on the wall. In fact, the writing was on the wall before Obama 
even won the election. He is not a progressive. He is not a liberal. He is a 
politician who serves the corporate powers that placed him in office. He does 
not serve the people.

He is not negotiating with Republicans. He is going through the necessary 
theatre to convince the populace that he is ceding away their safety nets, 
environmental protections, labor rights, and government protections as a matter 
of necessity. It is pure bullshit.

The democrats controlled three branches of government and they acted as 
operatives for the private health insurance companies, the oil companies, the 
military industrial complex, and the big banks. I am fully convinced Obama 
wanted a loss of control of Congress for his own reelection chances. Mighty 
difficult to pretend you have to cede every important principle and election 
promise when your own party maintains full control of the government. The 
democrats failed utterly to represent the American people, they lost the 
mid-terms, and this was scripted as a sign that the people actually wanted MORE 
corporate/military/wealth friendly policies. Not only did Obama gain the cover 
of needing to capitulate to the supposedly ‘right wing agenda’ (actually his own 
agenda imposed upon him by his corporate donor benefactors) with one of the 
branches now in the ‘opposition’s control. He was able to spin the loss as a 
need to further betray not only his base, but the entire American populace.

The President and democratic leadership are fully aware that they don’t serve at 
the pleasure of the people, they serve at the pleasure of those who buy the 
election cycles. It benefits the wealth and corporate power structure to 
maintain political representatives who will be able to foist their policies of 
greed and dominion over the people while tamping down the possibility of a 
grassroots and revolutionary backlash to their slimey dictates. Policies that 
would be universally decried under a Republican administration by the democratic 
base are accepted, sometimes defended, and worse yet, even advocated for under 
the Obama administration. The creation of candidate Obama was a brillinant 
corporate coup…the perfect way to stem the anger of the American people after 
the eight year nightmare of Bush. The face of change with zero change. People 
gobbled it up.

It was obvious as soon as Obama appointed his first Presidential cabinet what 
had really just occurred. The corporate power structure had placed a 
representative in power who not only served to diffuse the anger and hunger for 
change in the populace, but also had a political leader who would make it 
politically feasible to implement policies and laws that would have been heavily 
resisted under a Republican’s charge. Even after two plus years of continuous 
demostrations of political alliance and favor for the corporate wealth and 
against the benefit of the American citizenry, Obama still retains credibility 
(albeit weakend) among many of the traditional democratic base. He is still able 
to keep the people preoocupied and divided enough to stem any true united 
movement against the political power structure. There has been no real 
liberal/progressive challenge to the Obama presidency, he faces no threat at the 
current moment of any third party challenger within the democratic party, and 
there is no Bernie Sanders type politician who is stepping in to challenge him 
independently. He has been able to tamp down any real challenge to his 
Presidency and political doctrine from any liberal source, and now he only faces 
a weak and extremist field of right wing idealogues who will be sure to motivate 
enough of his prior supporters to the voting booth, if only out of sheer fear. 
He will retain his corporate sponsorship as long as he is able to continually 
deliver on their demands for privatization of government and dismantling of 
programs that empower people to exist outside its complete and total control. No 
unions, no strong public education, no financial safety nets for the elderly or 
disabled, no environmental rules that impinge on the scourging of every bit of 
land and water for the profit of the wealth and the few. None of it.

Obama is delivering it all. Why would they want to change horses?

Social Security and Medicare being placed on the table right before a 
Presidential election cycle? A striking demonstration of how far this process 
has already played out and how far Obama will go to keep corporate dollars 
pouring into his reelection coffer.

Meanwhile, the fascist power structure can’t lose. They have two political 
powers fighting to prove who is more willing to whore themselves out for their 
favor. Either way, they get what they want. It will continue as long as the 
people go along with the game, and acquises their representation to leadership 
who seek nothing but their own power. The writing is on the wall.

The only wild card is when the people finally wake up and decide they have had 
enough of the game.

I don’t see it for 2012. I hope I am wrong. I hope Medicare and Social Security 
will be the final straw and it will galvanize people into the streets. But, if 
we don’t rally for real change and we continue to futilely support political 
leaders and structure that have no agenda to represent our needs, change ain’t 
gonna come.

The Presidency of Hope has turned into the Presidency of Disempowerment and 
Hopelessness. And, sadly, I think that was the plan all along.

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