Obama = Socialism?

The election of Obama means the end of socialism:

When the next administration and congress take office, the most “socialist” event will probably be the eventual expiration of the Dubya tax cuts for snuffletroughs. We aren’t likely to see national health insurance like they have in all of the other communist countries the pink-leaning voters clearly aspire to emulate.

Hell, we probably won’t even see a continuation of the socialist subsidies to the polluting dinosaur energy industries like coal and oil. Nuclear power plants may even have to start paying for their own insurance. Geez, talk about not getting what you voted for.

If things get really bad, the river of tax money going to unaccountable military contractors might dry up, and the central pillar of our socialist empire will crumble.

Not that our current socialist practices don’t leave a lot to be desired: A proper “socialist” response would have been to attach pre-conditions to the money given to the banks and investment firms. That’s what they did in “socialist” Britain (where Marx’s original vision has been playing out like clockwork according to plan for the last century.)

M. McCulloh

Obama's Victory: The Future is Now

As an American I am so relieved. Tears welled in my eyes as I listened to Barack Obama's victory speech. Like so many Americans who came to believe in his Presidency and voted for him and for the greater purpose that he represents, I too say, "yes, we can".

There is a great wind of change now rising up across the desert of America. I sense that this is just the beginning of something much larger that will transform the landscape of America forever. As I said in my previous post, Obama is just it's first emissary. For all the years spent in a cultural and spiritual sandtrap over the continuous defeats at the hands of the political and social Right, The Ant had seen the way out, a hand-hold, but just beyond reach, that was comprised of the highest ideals of the American Progressive Left, and now it seems we have finally extricated ourselves.

Those on the Right who hijacked the country and subverted the higher calling of America to their own selfish ends in the name of things like "American foreign interests" and at home the disparagement of a "welfare state", can now find their way out of the hole they have dug for themselves - an abyss. Let them reside there for the Legion they are for an eternity.

Obama has transformed the political culture of the United States and created the possibility not only for a post-Bush cleanup, but a cleanup of the last 60 years of American right-wing political dementia.

Let it be so.

A Letter from a Friend.

I have been in a struggle with a post about America due to the welter of information regarding the econonmy and the election. I am not a professional jouranalist and don't get paid for this other than by my advertisements and donations. Who can blame me for being speechless?

Though I procrastinate, The Ant is working on it. It's just slow, back-bending labor. That's all. There are major transitions going on here. This blog is now entitled The Farm in an evocation of Orwell's Animal Farm. The Dans Macabre of the Authoritarian State is before our eyes, and lest you not think that America is not an Authoritarian State consider well how impossible it was to thwart the take-over of that country by Rightests who for decades drove it into the ground, and did so by the powers invested in the State while millions of "decent", small town, socially conservative, crypto-facist Americans walked in lock-step with it... now to their own humiliation

Obama is just a tip of the iceberg of the changes that are coming in America, I feel. Given the startling fact that America is on the threshold of electing a "black man" as President, you haven't seen anything yet. There has been a massive counter-swell to the Fascist Tide building for years now in America. It is about to unleash itself. I count myself and my dearest family and friends as mighty particles of this wave, and this body politic is about to bring forth some major political, social, and cultural enlightenment onto this planet. This is a paradigm shift that has just had the the curtain to the stage of history finally drawn for it. Entre the "Internal Revolution: the children of the American Transcendental tradition ".

I sense a huge change coming, and it's not just about Obama. He will be merely its first emissary.

I will attempt to prophesy what is ahead of him in a later post, but those of you who have been reading me know that my posts come but every ten days, if that. Forgive me. In the meantime, I pass along a thoughtful letter from a friend that does find a mirror image with me.

"The evils of China are now fully integrated into the evils of the capitalist system, an extension of the point made by Orwell. The only difference is that there is no duality, no mirror image. Just a slightly more horrible set of rulers doing the filthy work so that the shitheads and scumbags elsewhere can go about their dirty work...

That said, I am optimistic that a genuine popular revolution is taking place over here. Obama is not the second coming (or the first coming) of anyone. He's just a good candidate for the first time since Kennedy or before. And he has very good leadership in the House to help keep him on track. Some of the worst trends of the last 30 years can be rolled backwards. That may have profound repercussions for the Chinese - Capitalist Shithead Entente. Let us hope they are devastating...

There are three magic bullets to look for right now. The first is a general withdrawal of American military activity. The second is the full scale pursuit of alternative energy solutions. The third, and more ahead of its time (about where alternative energy was 20 years ago) is the legalization of drugs. The latter would staunch the huge expenditure of funds for a hopeless law enforcement and prison maintenance enterprise and in conjunction with the first two (more obvious and politically feasible,) would generate a virtually miraculous renaissance of the American economy. With these measures in place, a system of rewards and incentives directed towards China and employed by a progressive American government (dare I hope) might shift conditions toward decency".

Michael Bruce McCulloh.
Brooklyn, New York. USA

All three of his mentioned Magic Bullets are what is coming over the horizon, and they can't be stopped.