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Weathervane?
Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria with his TV show Global Public Square, Sundays on CNN, seems a good weathervane for where the nation is being taken. Zakaria in many ways has taken the place once occupied by William Buckley as the prominent intellectual of the uncompromising Right and unofficial spokesman for extreme capitalism during its most advanced imperialist phase. Unlike Buckley, he aims to present his opinions, guidance and evaluations as slightly centrist. But Zakaria's pseudo centrist mulling over the meaning of current events consistently includes arguments for the "logic' and necessity of moving ever further to the right.
Perhaps a faint diminishment of danger could possibly be occasioned by a growth of public disenchantment with the hideous ignorance on flagrant display in media as Sarah Palin, and those who champion her, are seen as almost seconding the "sentiments' of neo-fascist white racists. This scary realization could be a source of some enlightenment for the ever larger, increasingly apprehensive and less insanely pro-war segment of the American public.
However, Obama and Sarah Palin BOTH exalt the same military leadership that gives them both the OKay.
They are two loyal representatives of wealthy and influential investors in war industry and the industry's laterally connected high military officials. Yet media conglomerates intend for the public to see them as two political stars in confrontation. They both go along with and play out this hoax, which cleaves the national constituency conveniently in two making it easier to manage.
Both hail the Constitution just as the ruling upper class they represent has hailed the U.S. Constitution throughout American history, their minions interpreting it to eliminate what stands in the way of profits for the already wealthy few and the wars that broaden their power to plunder by raid and trade.
The last thing the present self-appointed masters of the universe want is for the public to see Obama and Sarah Palin as "Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum.' They shall be meant to appear and sound as if they are both opposing what the other stands for, when in reality they both stand for capitalism and imperialism as usual , unchanged and challenged. If there is a nuance of difference between them, it lies in the Republicans openly favoring great private concentrated wealth while the Democrats serve and pimp for the same private interests. But both The GOP and the Dems use government to help tighten the grip of those that fund candidacies and pressure those elected to office.
Instead of being subjected to the usual made-in-media situation-comedy of a fake confrontation between two like-minded imperial capitalists, an ethical United States of America, confident of its future, could allow for a productive exploration of reality with Obama and Sarah Palin on the same side facing off with empire critics Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and progressive Democrat Dennis Kucinich.
But such a real confrontation wouldn't help the gangsters divide and rule us.
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