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Talk to an Obama supporter. Say to him or her, “Barack Obama met with John McCain and George W. Bush and others to see how the mother of all bailouts could be passed.” Remember how he or she responds and catalog it in your memory for reference after this election when Obama supporters are renouncing their love and infatuation with Barack Obama.
When Americans begin to talk like recovering alcoholics and say, “Hello, my name is Joe Citizen and I am a recovering Obama supporter,” remember how you picked up on the fact that Americans were seemingly intoxicated with the candidacy of Barack Obama. (*It's highly unlikely anybody will talk like that even if disappointed, but wouldn't it be great?)
To steal a line from the blockbuster The Dark Knight, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Barack Obama has fallen victim to a system that forces him to compromise himself in order to advance to the next level and has been prey to the system since he was first elected to the Illinois state senate in 1997.
Barack Obama had a choice to either compromise himself or stand up to the system. But, he chose compromise because he saw the path to success required him to give up ground to opposing and dominating interests or because he saw politicians that refused to compromise struggling to produce change.
Knowing that Barack Obama has compromised himself, knowing that he has been censoring himself since he first took office in Illinois, how can anyone rationally think that he will use any opening whatsoever to do anything for the poor, working, and middle class of America that is being cleansed of all its assets by the corporations and politicians in Washington?
Barack Obama is not the problem, but he is a symptom. His candidacy is a symptom of this system. And how can you be infuriated and outraged with a system---how can you write or talk about the system with furious anger on a daily basis and at the same time promote a symptom of the very sickness that you hate passionately and wholeheartedly? How will that get us any closer to the world we want future generations to grow up in?
Forget that voting may enrich the sickness which this system perpetuates and at least admit that if you believe in voting, voting for a symptom of the sickness because you believe it could eliminate the sickness is like saying if more people were intoxicated on a daily basis there would be less drunk driving.
It’s like saying if there were more special effects in a movie, the movie would be better.
It’s like saying if you support male porn stars, pornography would be less demeaning to women.
Male porn stars help make pornography demeaning. Special effects often make it unnecessary for films to have a good story, which means the film will not be that good. And, intoxication invariably leads to drunk driving.
So, voting Barack Obama will continue the horrific and terrifying instances of the past seven years. That's because Barack Obama's candidacy and a future win will be how the system renews itself.
The system renews itself every four years whether the system gets a new face to lead it or not.
Barack Obama makes it possible for government and corporations to serve the top 1% instead of the poor, working, and middle classes of America. Obama makes it possible for a phony “war on terror” to continue and for Bush to finish his presidency without being removed from office (and for Dick Cheney to finish his vice presidency without being removed from office).
And those that support Obama, grant carte blanche to Washington and Wall Street to not only do as they please during this election but to also do as they please from now until the next election.
