BOURGEOIS COMMUNISM IV

The collapse of the communist bloc proved to be a double edged sword; it was an overdue act of justice for millions of people but after a few victory laps and millions of uncorked champagne bottles it showed us its ugliest face: the world stability no longer depended on the communication between "two masters". One of them was dead and the other was too busy celebrating to realize what was coming. A tragedy like 9/11 wouldn't have been conceivable in the two bloc world. America could no longer rely on Moscow to maintain the equilibrium that, albeit precariously, had kept the monster of violence away from home. 

The reader must not be under the illusion that what we called the west was a handful of nuns gone on a picnic; whilst the alternative to democracy is chaos and poverty it would be suicidal to ignore how many times we have thrown down governments, plotted to assassinate foreign leaders, failed to foresee what was best for us in the long run, waged burdensome and useless wars and so many other unnameable sins. What is worst, more often than not our deeds have not even proved beneficial in the end. To make matters worse, with the enhancement of our world after the collapse of the USSR we have grown to be a sort of acephalous octopus with hundreds of uncontrollable tentacles with the most diverse objectives and goals. While the enemy is united despite its inherent discrepancies we are divided by a fake unity that exists only in theory. Such was the scenario when our powers that be decided to send an African American to the White House, but not just any African American; there was a uniqueness to this event: he had to seem a factor of change, of modernity, a product of the new technologies, of a united and racially mixed America. In a way, Barrack Hussein Obama had to be the Ronald Wilson Reagan of the left.

Much has been speculated as to which group of interests led to Obama's victory. My goal is to raise awareness among as many human beings as possible of the new guise worn by the old enemy. I won't risk the effectiveness of these articles on a history wild goose chase that remains way beyond my intellectual capabilities, but even my most naive readers know no human being gets the top job in the land without the blessing of a certain group or spectrum of groups.  In my view Obama marks the coronation of the new American and, hence, of the new western democracy:

1- Tolerance as a screen behind which our world kept being chipped away.

2- Diversity as long as the "diverse" toed the line.

3- Demonizing of the wealthy; conveniently hiding the fact that the whole attempt was financed by "some" wealthy; the kind of wealthy that wants the government to take charge once they have infiltrated it with their people; most wealthy will get busted but they hopefully won't: risky gambit but avarice has no limits. 

4- Intoxication of academia, the arts and the media with the "progressive" rhetoric so that the public opinion gradually prepares for a new order: more bureaucracy, less accountability, such a dense and viscous substance beyond which our perception is impaired

5- An incurable sense of guilt; a relentless bombardment with news and views of hardships and tragedies elsewhere, conveniently omitting our own; thus, the role of America becomes that of aiding the needy and sheltering the poor at such a pace that two decades would bring about the defacing of the nation and a shift on the values and goals that had kept us as the most powerful nation on earth for decades.

6- To comply with the objectives above the first African American president could not do the logical thing: start once and for all the conversation to close the gap that still remains between a large portion of his community and the rest of America. He could fiddle the issue; he could even mention the issue from time to time, but he could in no way, shape or form address the issue constructively, let alone use the prestige of his office to begin a forward motion. An isolated, disfranchised and even bitter African American community was paramount to the final goal of dismembering our nation from within.

7- Gramsci could not have dreamed a better scenario and Berlinguer would even wince at the sight of anarchists, communists, socialists, liberals, and honest center left individuals united and destroying the very foundations of the western society. The ingenuity of the tactic lies on the fact that no anti American slogans are chanted; all is done precisely in the name of OUR America; based on the principles stated once and again by our Founding Fathers; just take a comma out here and place it there, the very same phrase with a slight variation of punctuation means exactly the opposite. A revolution of semantics and equivocal lexicon as the sheath of a razor sharp dagger destined to sever the vital organs of the "capitalist beast". 

8- The first black American president became the point of fracture beyond which anyone became a bigot and and fascist; criticizing the president was an attack of America as a nation. The different elites of all walks of life rallied behind the president, but for all the complacency and self serving smiles in most quarters no love poured from the enemies of our nation. Weakened in the domestic front the USA showed no stamina to counter its foreign rivals; one could even think that we had lost the Cold War; while we picked funny flowers and sang tunes of peace and rivers that endlessly flowed into a sea of love our enemies felt emboldened and challenged us in no equivocal terms. TO BE CONTINUED...