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.
