The end of Obama's socialism

[bigbadwolf]

Obama is ending his Marxist-Leninist experiment:

The Republican and Tea Party counter-revolution is on the march. Faced with a major voter rebellion against his hard socialist agenda yesterday, the Marxist-Leninist United States president Barack Obama has met with Tea Party icons Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, and Glenn Beck and "FreedomWorks" chief Dick Armey. Obama has agreed to significantly roll back the radical proletarian revolution he initiated in late 2008 and early 2009.

Obama's radical Marxist experiment has been defeated. Obama will rescind his November 7, 2009 executive order that collectivized the means of production and distribution and placed them under the direction of elected workers' councils. United States military detachments will no longer engage in the expropriation of capitalist wealth and property in service to "the common good and the working classes." Private ownership of core economic institutions and their operation for investor profit will be restored at once.

The massive socialized health care system that Obama created by executive fiat last April -- responsible even in its short life for a dramatic improvement in public health in the U.S. -- will be immediately dismantled. Private insurance, drug, and care providers will be restored to their rightful parasitic status -- a development that is certain to help preserve the United States' status as one of the unhealthiest societies in the industrialized world. Dr. Che Guevara's picture will be torn down from its current place at the entrance of the federal Department of Health and Human Services. It will be replaced by a Norman Rockwell-style portrait of the nation's six leading insurance CEOs, smiling under the slogan, "Your Health, Our Profit."

The nation's leading financial institutions will be re-privatized and placed back in the control of their rightful plutocratic owners. Thousands of super-opulent Americans will be released from U.S. military prison.

(source)

 

[Conrado]

Who wrote that???

 

[mini]

Who wrote that???

If you click on "source" above you can read the whole article and see that " Part-time satirist Paul Street" wrote it. (whoever that is).

 

[philamote]

The satire, if you want to call it that, is from Monthly Review. It's easy to tell from the economic jargon that this is a real honest-to-God socialist writing, not just some bogeyman concocted by the fear mongers in the media who conflate higher taxes for the rich with the overthrow of capitalism.

The guy only wishes that Obama were a Marxist-Leninist.

 

[Ricardo]

Unfortunately, many deranged Americans actually bought the Obama is a socialist baloney sold by Fox and friends. Truth is the US is well on its way to becoming a corporatist state where the oil/energy, financial, national security, pharma/medical, agribusiness and multinational oligarchs call the tune, having bought and paid for a government that serves their personal and company financial interests to the detriment of the citizenry.

 

[SydSol]

I think this guy is a Koch Brothers Tea Party paid-for plant. What a moron! Like we believe any of your worthless words! Get a life! I wouldn't read or respond to any more of his posts. The real person to worry about is Bernanke, Benny just fired up his ink jets today. Dollar tanking faster than Argentine peso!

 

[bigbadwolf]

Unfortunately, many deranged Americans actually bought the Obama is a socialist baloney sold by Fox and friends. Truth is the US is well on its way to becoming a corporatist state where the oil/energy, financial, national security, pharma/medical, agribusiness and multinational oligarchs call the tune, having bought and paid for a government that serves their personal and company financial interests to the detriment of the citizenry.

That's because most Americans don't know what socialism is. The Tea Partiers are just more vociferous in their ignorance. The US has been a corporate state for decades upon decades; the difference forty years ago was that some modest concessions had been made towards common people (the New Deal in the '30s, the Great Society in the '60s). But these started to unravel about thirty years ago, and with increasing speed once the Soviet Union collapsed (the kid gloves came off because there was no working alternative around). The US today has a sham formal democracy where the sheeple can choose between two almost indistinguishable parties that serve, well, pretty much the same oligopolistic interests.

For real democracy, look at what's happening on French streets.

 

[jaredwb]

That's because most Americans don't know what socialism is. The Tea Partiers are just more vociferous in their ignorance. The US has been a corporate state for decades upon decades; the difference forty years ago was that some modest concessions had been made towards common people (the New Deal in the '30s, the Great Society in the '60s). But these started to unravel about thirty years ago, and with increasing speed once the Soviet Union collapsed (the kid gloves came off because there was no working alternative around). The US today has a sham formal democracy where the sheeple can choose between two almost indistinguishable parties that serve, well, pretty much the same oligopolistic interests.

For real democracy, look at what's happening on French streets.

LMFAO...FRANCE?? Are you serious? That's your "definition" of real democracy? So, the anarchists, socialist, communists, and every other "ists" rioting on the streets, setting fires to everything, destroying property, etc. etc. etc....that's democracy?

BUT...the Tea Party activists...protesting PEACEFULLY with almost ZERO incidents are crazy??

And what's even sadder, is all the bitching and whining you do about the tea party asking for smaller government, less taxes, etc. is EXACTLY what you bitch about above. The tea party doesn't want the Dems/Repubs to be run by any special interests...they want them to serve the people...THAT is real democracy.

France??? Are you serious?? LMAO

 

[bigbadwolf]

LMFAO...FRANCE?? Are you serious? That's your "definition" of real democracy? So, the anarchists, socialist, communists, and every other "ists" rioting on the streets, setting fires to everything, destroying property, etc. etc. etc....that's democracy?

BUT...the Tea Party activists...protesting PEACEFULLY with almost ZERO incidents are crazy??

That's one of the reasons why they're not going to get anywhere. The other reason I've given below. Their situation is analogous to the millions of protestors who were against the invasion of Iraq. One fine day Bush came before the cameras, said he respectfully disagreed with them, and end of discussion. Power has to be confronted.

And what's even sadder, is all the bitching and whining you do about the tea party asking for smaller government, less taxes, etc. is EXACTLY what you bitch about above. The tea party doesn't want the Dems/Repubs to be run by any special interests...they want them to serve the people...THAT is real democracy.

And what exactly is the program, the agenda, the path to go from here to their idea of smaller government? They haven't got a clue. They don't even know what they're talking about. It's all vague, fuzzy, pie-in-the-sky notions of "getting our country back" (whatever that means). What policies are they specifically advocating? If you're going to restructure the most predatory and militaristic nation on earth, you need some ideas.

I find myself agreeing with Matt Taibbi:

Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it's going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I've concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They're full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending — only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry's medals and Barack Obama's Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending — with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about ...

In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will "take our country back" from everyone they disapprove of. But what they don't realize is, there's a catch: This is America, and we have an entrenched oligarchical system in place that insulates us all from any meaningful political change. The Tea Party today is being pitched in the media as this great threat to the GOP; in reality, the Tea Party is the GOP. What few elements of the movement aren't yet under the control of the Republican Party soon will be, and even if a few genuine Tea Party candidates sneak through, it's only a matter of time before the uprising as a whole gets castrated, just like every grass-roots movement does in this country. Its leaders will be bought off and sucked into the two-party bureaucracy, where its platform will be whittled down until the only things left are those that the GOP's campaign contributors want anyway: top-bracket tax breaks, free trade and financial deregulation.

Suddenly, tens of thousands of Republicans who had been conspicuously silent during George Bush's gargantuan spending on behalf of defense contractors and hedge-fund gazillionaires showed up at Tea Party rallies across the nation, declaring themselves fed up with wasteful government spending. From the outset, the events were organized and financed by the conservative wing of the Republican Party, which was quietly working to co-opt the new movement and deploy it to the GOP's advantage.

So how does a group of billionaire businessmen and corporations get a bunch of broke Middle American white people to lobby for lower taxes for the rich and deregulation of Wall Street? That turns out to be easy. Beneath the surface, the Tea Party is little more than a weird and disorderly mob, a federation of distinct and often competing strains of conservatism that have been unable to coalesce around a leader of their own choosing. Its rallies include not only hardcore libertarians left over from the original Ron Paul "Tea Parties," but gun-rights advocates, fundamentalist Christians, pseudomilitia types like the Oath Keepers (a group of law- enforcement and military professionals who have vowed to disobey "unconstitutional" orders) and mainstream Republicans who have simply lost faith in their party. It's a mistake to cast the Tea Party as anything like a unified, cohesive movement — which makes them easy prey for the very people they should be aiming their pitchforks at. A loose definition of the Tea Party might be millions of pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the handful of banks and investment firms who advertise on Fox and CNBC.

 

[geoffbob]

LMFAO...FRANCE?? Are you serious? That's your "definition" of real democracy? So, the anarchists, socialist, communists, and every other "ists" rioting on the streets, setting fires to everything, destroying property, etc. etc. etc....that's democracy?

BUT...the Tea Party activists...protesting PEACEFULLY with almost ZERO incidents are crazy??

And what's even sadder, is all the bitching and whining you do about the tea party asking for smaller government, less taxes, etc. is EXACTLY what you bitch about above. The tea party doesn't want the Dems/Repubs to be run by any special interests...they want them to serve the people...THAT is real democracy.

France??? Are you serious?? LMAO

Thank you thank you. I just about deep sixed this forum because of all the extremists here.
As soon as the "stimulus" kicked in my job of 24 years went belly up. I know two people who got layed off, lounged around for a year collecting unemployment and called me AFTER it expired to ask if I know of any jobs. Note they never called me while they were still collecting. The French can go burn another 5000 more cars tonight. I do love Buenos Aires. Isn't that what this is supposed to be about?