Monday, October 17, 2011

It’s all part of the plan

Jeff Goldstein continues to be one of the most articulate political prophets in the land. Here is his latest piece, which focuses on Obama’s attempt to coopt the Occupation for his own ends. A sample:
And now the next stage is beginning: an assault on the “fat cats” and the money men, launched from different angles, with the Occupy Wall Street crowds providing the civil unrest, the social tension, and the optics, making the more outlandish demands (and including the most repugnant fellow-travelers), while Obama serves as the voice of reason and moderation, fashioning his campaign around a populist soft-socialism in which the banks and bankers and money men are required to pay “their fair share” and the “wealth disparity” is addressed — even as the evil Republicans try to “protect the rich.”
One man cannot bring down our nation; however, a nation that twice elects such a man as currently occupies the White House is already essentially finished. Let us hope and pray that the ignorance and social rot have not advanced so far.

Update: At least the Occupy movement is bringing people together - even Nazis and Communists.

Ah, just like old times…



Update II: A question occurs to me: is Obama our Kerensky – an incompetent “game-changer” overtaken by forces that he helped unleash but can’t control – or is he our Lenin, fully aware of what he’s doing and pleased with the likely end-results?

8 comments:

richard mcenroe said...

What do you mean co-opt? This thing is a Dem construct from the first turd dropped...

Randy-g said...

I fear he is our Lennin...

Steve Burri said...

Trotsky?

Col. Milquetoast said...

I'm waiting for the people occupying public places to the exclusion of others and poop all over it as if were their own private property and who rail against an amorphous group of people with wealth and complain about bailouts while asking for free stuff will realize that they are wealthier than billions of people on the planet and demand to have their wealth taken away and given to those living on a dollar or two a day.

mojo said...

Trotsky, I'd say. Don't know who's playing Stalin.

"Useful idiot, no longer useful."

Minicapt said...

He's a 'Narodnik', like Alexander Herzen or Nicolai Chernyshevsky; except for his lack of academic qualifications.

Cheers

Michael Lonie said...

That cartoon is one of my favorite political cartoons from WWII. My other two favorites are also by David Low. One shows a grumpy Churchill the Party Leader sulking after the election of 1945 made Labour the new government. Another Churchill, sitting on a gigantic pedestal inscribed "Leader of Humanity" consoles him by saying "Cheer up. They'll forget you soon enough, but they'll remember me forever."

My all time favorite from the period, drawn by Low right after the French surrender, shows an island beset by storm waves. A British soldier, armed with a rifle, shakes his fist at a dark and threatening sky filled with Nazi bombers, and says "Very well, alone."

Paco said...

Michael: I'll have to look those up. They sound great.