Obama Gives American Imperialism a Facelift
Source: Obama will be used as a "tool" to control us by promoting ideas like hope, change and the American dream.This will enable American imperialism to continue to play a major global role in a world where any reference to America evokes hostility.
The Obama administration, rather than bringing about the desired change to the American people and the peoples of the world, is more likely to act as the perfect tool for US imperialism's facelift.
His election was the most advisable choice for the USA’s ruling class which aims at using this suitable "tool" in order to hem in the people’s consciousness by promoting carefully chosen ideas such as the "American dream."
This will enable American imperialism to continue to play a major global role in a world where even the slightest reference to America evoked hostility.
Obama’s victory is being used by the various capitalist corporations and the media industry, which is also controlled by capitalists the world over, as the "coming of the Messiah".
However despite the undisputed capacity of the new president in rhetoric, his "charismatic" personality and his declarations that he intends to "unite the ordinary people with Wall Street" and the "rich with the poor", the only thing he is really committed to is the defence of the interests of the most powerful sections of America’s elite and the multinationals.
The new Messiah is a direct product of the powerful American establishment so that once more the people are trapped in all sorts of illusions, they chose enthusiastically the "lesser of the two evils" and accept joyfully the "solution" offered by the ruling class, which is responsible for all the sufferings of not only the American people but the peoples of the entire world.
By promoting and facilitating Obama’s victory, the US ruling class managed to have the obvious dissatisfaction of millions of people (socially excluded, poor, unemployed) defused so as to allow big US capital to continue its activities unhindered.
It is no surprise therefore that some of his bigger sponsors in his long race to the White House were all those who set up and caused the unprecedented monetary-credit bubble of Wall Street and were part of the scandal with housing loans, such as Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and others.
One of his more faithful supporters, during the pre-election campaign, was Kenneth Griffin, a real big shark, General Manager of Citadel, one of the companies that set up the swindle with the "toxic debt" of the hedge funds.
Why shouldn’t the Wall Street giants, the multinationals sponsor Obama heavily? They are going to receive billions of dollars from the Poulson scheme, introduced by the Bush administration and supported straight away by Obama.
Why shouldn’t they support him when he made it abundantly clear: "I am a market man ......I love the market"?
As for the "symbolism" of an African-American president, in the current circumstances, not only in the US but world-wide, a black president was needed in order to deceive easier the southern states of America and help control the Chinese and Russian purchasers of oil reserves in Africa.
The working people in all countries must not have any illusions that there is going to be a real change by the new "charismatic", African-American US president.
The same imperialist policy, determined by the US military-industrial complex, is going to continue. It is to be expected that imperialism’s aggressiveness, both the US and European, will be intensified in the antagonism with other forces that are entering the global game. More...