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First, Rich's analysis is pretty good --- that Obama's trajectory is unchanged, unpromising, and will lead to no good end for him or the country, as the politics of "anger and frustration" from the "right and left' deteriorate.
"Neither in action nor in message is he in front of the anger roiling a country where high unemployment remains unchecked and spiraling foreclosures are demolishing the bedrock American dream of home ownership. The president is no longer seen as a savior but as a captive of the interests who ginned up the mess and still profit, hugely, from it."
Then Rich uses an analogy that I posted on CD last week, saying, "There's a reason why the otherwise antithetical Leno and Conan camps are united in their derision of NBC's titans. A TV network has become a handy proxy for every mismanaged, greedy, disloyal and unaccountable corporation in our dysfunctional economy. It's a business culture where the rich and well-connected get richer while the employees, shareholders and customers get the shaft."
Rich, being employed by the Times, is much milder in his analogy than I was, in that he thinks the heart of Obama's (and our) problem is merely "greedy unaccountable corporations", whereas I have long tagged this as the ruling-elite corporate/financial/militarist EMPIRE --- which has been (until Thursday) controlling "our' country by hiding behind the faà §ade of its two-party "Vichy' sham of democracy (and aided by its equally "Vichy' corporatist media). Certainly the "anger and frustration" that Rich, Obama, the right, the left, and I all agree on is a combined corporatist structure that dwarfs NBC, and is a monolith Empire of hundreds of corporations, banks, insurance, hedge fund whores, and private equity pirates --- which care not a wit for any of us (or the U.S.).
Until Thursday, confrontation with this corporatist Empire was opaque, disguised, and not likely to come to a head soon ---- but then the supreme court's overreach for the moneyed elitist Empire crossed a "bridge too far', and much like the catalyst of monopoly "tea prices' in Boston Harbor by the British EMPIRE this disguised and occupying Empire in our own land became an easy target for a Second American Revolution.
The "anger and frustration" will not die down. The crimes of the Empire will not disappear. The storm of populist rage and revolutionary spirits will only grow higher and wider in a general conflagration of the people vs, the Empire, and so, Obama can either let the arc of history bend him, or he can get in front of it --- if he is really going to do as he said dozens of times in one speech and "fight for the people" (against this corporatist Empire).
Here's the deal. We can give Obama a little test of his bonafides (some might say, of his balls). Since the supreme court has presented us with the accelerated call to arms by allowing the economically and politically oppressive Empire to totally dominate all spheres of our lives with its unlimited bribery of all corrupt politicians (of both the existing corporate Parties/Party), Obama can prove his real metal by announcing, in his "State of the Union' that he is changing his party affiliation to Green Independent, since that party will not allow any candidate to accept the new unlimited corrupting bribery of the corporatist Empire --- and that he expects all honest Senators and Congressmen to do the same if they are to truly represent the people rather than the corporatist Empire.
Obama can essentially call everyone's bluff (on the angry right and left) and "call-out' the corporatist Empire's supreme court enabled money control of our American democracy for the fascist take-over of the country that it is. He can point out to the frustrated average American people viewing on their cheap TV's (from both the left and right), and to his Congressional audience (of both Republicans and Democrats that are willing to listen) that since there is no legislative or other means to reverse or wipe-out the supreme court's "sell-out' of our democracy to the corporatist Empire, that he is willing to solve this unsolvable problem ---- along with solving our health care problem, our economic tyranny problem, our imperialist war problems, and all our other common problems that have been created by the cancer of this moneyed elite corporatist Empire upon our country, by voting for democracy against Empire and moving to essentially a new "Peoples Party' in the form of the Green Independent Party, which does not take money from the Empire which oppresses us. [Cheer, cheer, cheer]
Obama can issue a challenge those in Congress who want to "represent the people in stead of the corporatist Empire, to meet me in the new "Peoples Party' in November, which the whole country and all honest citizens now will know is the only sign of non-moneyed, non-corrupt, and non Empire choice --- and we will use their contributions and public funding only to overturn any who stay behind in the Empire's lair of the corrupted Republican and Democratic Party!"
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
