The Oracle Speaks

The myth that Obama is trying to promote is the myth that the Democratic party is somehow the last, best hope of progressives; the party of the best and the brightest, that his election will restore the lost glory of Kennedy-era Camelot. What a crock. Kennedy was a cold-warrior who thought that the Republicans were fumbling the ball in the war against communism (substitute terrorism). In foreign policy Democratic liberalism of the 1960s was equivalent to the neo-conservatism of today (check out this and this and this). In fact many neo-cons directly trace their roots to Kennedy-esque "make the world safe for democracy" liberalism. The War in Vietnam was not waged by Republicans but by Democrats. There is this ridiculous idea that somehow the Democrats are backsliding or reversing course. No way, they are just acting as the reactionary tweedle-dee to the Republican tweedle-dumb that they have always been. The Democrats have historically been the party of co-option. Whenever the masses get restless and begin to see the true machinations of their rulers lurking behind the wizard's curtain the Democrats are called upon to redirect their energies back towards the mainstream maintenance of the status quo. This is Obama's role, be it conscious or not. Liberalism is the mortal enemy of progressive politics and always has been. Robert Kennedy the liberal icon was the right-hand man of Joe McCarthy. Obama, Pelosi, and the whole rotten crew are out to castrate the left and preserve the rule of monopoly capitalism (or using the current euphemism "corporate special interests"). They represent the emerging corps of alternative energy, "green" capitalists who are out to make their billions off the latest crisis of capitalism. God only knows what disasters they will perpetuate.