It would seem there is a ‘Democratic Team’ and a ‘Republican Team’ that runs our government. This group (those that are appointed by whoever wins the presidential selection) no doubt has been carefully vetted and copiously reviewed by the powers that influence and have a strong hand in controlling our politics; by buying off our ‘public servants’ (through lobbying aka bribery and campaign contributions), engaging in behind the scenes machinations, and via the ownership of the vast majority of the heavily controlled ‘mainstream’ media.
Every four years the Blue Team (the Democrats) and the Red Team (the Republicans), take a handful of their most able, and respected talking point readers, and put them through a jolly good free for all (where both elite political parties make sure to marginalize and otherwise work to make irrelevant the most insightful and intelligent members of their ranks, individuals like Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, who don’t play the game designed for them by the elite corporate and governmental superstructure); by means of which the standard bearers for the political parties of the elites are selected, that always and everywhere dominate the politics of this country (nearly all the nations of the world really, save perhaps the Scandinavian ones, and a few other fortunate European countries, which are closer to real democracies than any other governments). The punditocracy, the accepted intellectuals and ideologues that have achieved the elite stamp of approval, and the corporate controlled ‘mainstream’ media paint some of the talking point readers, as too far to one ‘extreme’ of the political spectrum or the other; however, the men behind the curtain (and I can assure you they are men, almost entirely white men, I’d assume), who give these people the authority to shape public opinion; know that this is just part of the game, part of the bread and circus to entertain and mystify the rabble, rendering them acquiescent and into thinking and acting as if they are participating and influencing the process that reigns over them.
With Barack Obama, and indeed the entire Obamabot/Obama-mania phenomenon, we are witnessing the ‘transition’ of one elite faction, ’surrendering’ power over to another elite approved faction. The place settings and the name cards will be changing, but the overarching policies and direction of the country will largely remain the same. A lot of lip service will continue to be given to such idealistic ideas and principles as hope and change, but very little of this rhetoric will have any serious meaning towards what will actually be taking place in and around the U.S. government and its policies. The Obamian change, will mainly be Orwellian in nature, and it will shatter the hopes and dreams of many of Barack Obama’s most ardent liberal, progressive, and idealistic enthusiasts and supporters. It will leave these folks wanting for the inspirational days of the McCain/Obama election campaign, considering that the reality of the Obama administration’s policies, will be far removed from what Obama had given the impression, while running for the highest office, that he would be pursuing. Obama and his elite handlers, of course, knew this all along (it will not be a surprise to them or be any cause for concern, reappraisal, or self-reflection), but perhaps many of the youths, first time voters, and others who were energized by Obama’s flashy campaign rhetoric and sloganeering were not sophisticated enough (in the American political shell game) to have already been aware of the ensuing political reality.
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