[lbo-talk] Do we care?

Mark Wain wtkh at comcast.net
Wed Sep 1 02:18:37 PDT 2010


"It will be an ugly scene, and it will be dangerous, too. The 1990s were a time of peace and prosperity; this is a time of neither. In particular, we¡¯re still suffering the after-effects of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, and we can¡¯t afford to have a federal government paralyzed by an opposition with no interest in helping the president govern. But that¡¯s what we¡¯re likely to get.¡± ¨C Paul Krugman http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/opinion/30krugman.html?ref=columnists

The right wing group consisting of the Republic and Tea Parties supported by billionaire plutocrats like the Koch-Murdoch clique and other still hidden monopoly financial capitalist forces will wreak havoc next year, or even earlier, on politico-economic affairs in this country. Based on historical analyses, it is clear that this group has already usurped what Hitler-Mussolini clique could not accomplish and held onto in Europe in the 1930-1940s, in terms of the degree of its dominance in politics, ideology and civil society, hegemony over socioeconomics, humiliation, exploitation and oppression of the working people, absoluteness of bourgeoisie dictatorship, and expansion in militarism. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?ref=columnists

Its insatiable power usurpation drive cannot stop here and its next strategic offensive will focus on the destruction of the Democratic Party or, if failing that, substitution with Tea party by voting. The final aim of its political plunder is to realize a pseudo-democratic Fascism infrastructure, namely a two-party system with each party tooting its horn for Fascism to deracinate voters from making any choice different from Fascism.

This reactionary group could not care less about ¡°a federal government paralyzed,¡± worsened economic crisis, and ¡°interest in helping the president govern.¡± On the contrary, they prefer a dysfunctional government, do-nothing presidency and defunct economy so much so that they will be in a stronger position to justify a coup d¡¯¨¦tat and/or a Reichstag fire, control as well as nazification of the press, radio, internet, TV , films and culture and the ¡°second revolution of America.¡±

The 2007-2009 housing bubble-inspired financial crisis has been so severe that the Second Depression and its associated deflation are not too far away. The Democratic Party and President Obama, while pretentious, are both obtuse in political sensitivity, weak in governance, inept in dealing with the most fastidious opposition political force. All these self-inflicted weak points engender and encourage the acceleration of the right wing group to take political power.

Obama has become Chancellor Hindenburg in the early 1930s. In addition, there are no shortages of Chamberlains, Goebbels, and Hitlers, cultivated and protected by the monopoly financial capital that have held sway over the politico-economic arena since Ronald Reagan¡¯s days.

As the abyss are shoveled deeper by the platitudinous, feckless and cop-out democratic leadership, blue-dog Democrats start to induce more Democrats to turn their coats to deprave DP to serve as a bellhop of the Fascist GOP.

Disenchanted ordinary folks have no choice except to fight back hard in solidarity with trustworthy, prescient, sturdy and organized anti-Fascism fighters. For if we do not care about the tendency of Nazification of the country, or if we trivialize the danger of the Fascist far right group crushing DP not only electorally but also morally and organizationally, either way we will have to suffer Nazi prosecution and bloodbath in a short time.

The weak Obama administration still holds, at the moment, military and security power. Once it becomes weaker still, these critical material powers may be lost to the insurgent far right group through military coup d¡¯¨¦tat and widespread insurrections. By then it would be too late for the progressives and the leftists to fight back as they would have done for, both politically and physically.

To defend DP does not mean to approve bourgeois politics and ideology or accept their faux democratic system but to serve our own interests of survival.

The immediate danger in front of us is that Obama has become dejected, powerless, muted, and felt his spell of good fortune has run out. Trampled by these defeatist emotions, he could have whipped round to give up any competition with the RP. In other words, it is conceivable that the commanding headquarters of DP surrender as a collective group under monopoly financial capital¡¯s enormous pressure when the bourgeoisie-without-borders decide that it becomes superfluous to maintain a weak and inept DP of no or marginal oppositional utility.



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