Tuesday, July 9, 2013

PRESIDENT OBAMA & THE U.S. MIDDLE CLASS



 

 
 
Especially during President Obama's 2nd term of office, he seemed to affirm a special concern for the American middle class. He almost seemed to carve out a political position of “patron” of the American middle class. Was – and is – this credible? Was he employing special terminology, as good lawyers often do? Has he become a student of derashic sages?
Given Barack Obama’s long years of nursing at the dugs of devotees of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin and subsequently imbibing from the enriched milk of Antonio Gramsci, could he have flip-flopped his sympathies from the proletariat/workers/downtrodden classes to the American middle class? I don’t think that is likely.
For Marxists the bourgeoisie was always a stage of economic development that must yield in the name of progress to people’s equality. The bourgeoisie was like an outer rampart that had to be scaled so that the social imperative could confront and defeat capitalism itself. The French term “bourgeoisie” can be translated to mean “middle class.”
If President Obama was a Marxist, he would certainly oppose the middle class. Since he has been associated with Marxism and socialism in several important ways, such as parents, relatives, friends, mentors, and organizations, his adherence to its tenets would seem firmly set. One cannot help but to believe that his heart remained with the community of poor and “exploited” and not with a category composed of wannabe exploiters.
The fact that middle class folks didn’t see themselves as exploiters was irrelevant. How President Obama viewed them was the issue.
I am certain that the American middle class is dissolving. The only place that they can go is down. With the capitalists no longer in a position of playing the middle class off against the masses of underemployed, the stage will be set for the great battle of capitalists and their machinery vs. the exploited masses. Hence, it may play out in a MATRIX-like story.
The American middle class is hopelessly positioned in a usury economy of debt-mongering. Capitalist banks routinely inflate-deflate the credit they have issued, while perversely blaming the middle class for not saving enough and at the same time not spending enough. Only the American middle class has found virtue in this system: 1) they have been pleased to “pull in their belts” and 2) they have gotten a renewal of pride in showing “how tough they were as they got their ass kicked.”
Their preachers have never inveighed against usury.  They have never advised them that a “beggar one’s neighbor” approach won’t appear so appealing when one became “the neighbor.”
The slow grounding up of the middle class provided food for the restless masses slowly turning to the revolution as a flower to the sun. Was it not reasonable that President Obama’s concern for the American middle class was, in fact, similar to Dr. Kevorkian’s concern for the living doomed?
Regardless of the huffing and puffing of conservative spokespeople, an Obama-esque change will and must come to America due to the very central contradictions that have been built into the system. Allowing private banks (and even corporations) to create the great bulk of the national money supply defied all the “checks and balances” carefully introduced into the organic law of the land by the Founding Fathers. By the early 20th Century risk capital, created out of thin air, increasingly powered the economy. Periodic collapses had become certain. Iconic areas of the modern American system, according to conservative/Republican thinking, such as international central banks, free trade, and mobile (underpaid) work force, provoked terminal illness in Uncle Sam.
The idea of the interconnectivity of a global economy diminished national concerns as “parochial,” while simultaneously severing the relationship of American citizens to the controlling strings of power. The U. S. citizens were advised to “think globally and act locally.” However, their thinking had become almost entirely based on hearsay and dubious video footage. Hence, they could not possibly cogently “act globally” (assuming their elected representatives actually represented their views), forcing them in the end to leave matters to unelected “experts.”
Bigness defied representative government. It encouraged not citizen rule but syndicate rule.
President Obama presumably hopes that after the death of Uncle Sam, he may be revitalized as Comrade Sam. Then he can take his politically correct seat at the table with the other syndicate hoodlums. The era of the dictatorship of the people of the world community will be at hand. Each American can proudly boast, “And I helped!” However, they will have no influence on significant future decisions. Nevertheless, they may take pride in helping select who will play on the All-Star team in local sport.

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