{"id":2212,"date":"2011-12-08T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T17:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2016-02-14T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T01:48:26","slug":"barack-obama-and-the-growing-fascist-corporate-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/barack-obama-and-the-growing-fascist-corporate-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama and the Growing Fascist-Corporate State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published in Issue 451 of The Black Commentator on December 8, 2011<\/a>
\nRepublished in revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com on December 12, 2011<\/a>
\nBy Larry Pinkney<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can\u2019t face reality.\u201d<\/strong>
\n -Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is time for everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people to be critical thinkers, and in so doing, view Barack Obama for what he actually is,\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0for what some had hoped he would be.<\/p>\n

As this year of 2011 winds to a close, the corporate-backed U.S. President Barack Obama has repeatedly and adroitly demonstrated his ability to mesmerize many people with an endless litany of rhetoric, even as he simultaneously turns the terrible pain of everyday people against them.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama and his Democrat and Republican party [i.e. Republicrat] cohorts have taken the scandalous tactics of\u00a0\u2018bait and switch\u2019<\/em>\u00a0to an all time new\u00a0low<\/em>. Obama, the Nobel\u00a0Peace<\/em> Prize laureate, continues in the footsteps of his deceitful war mongering, corporate-backed political predecessors. Adorning himself lavishly behind the political smoke screen of rhetoric and so-called\u00a0plausible-deniability<\/em>, Obama is overseeing, ushering in and facilitating an era of corporate-government subterfuge, perpetual wars abroad, corporate hegemony [i.e.\u00a0de facto<\/em> corporate fascism], excruciating economic austerity against everyday people, and police-state brutality at home.<\/p>\n

As the late, great people\u2019s historian Howard Zinn so correctly put it, \u201cI think people are dazzled by Obama\u2019s\u00a0rhetoric<\/em>, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president – which means, in our time,\u00a0a dangerous president<\/em>…\u201d Indeed, in all probability, the extent of Obama\u2019s\u00a0deceit, guile, and subterfuge<\/em>\u00a0in this year of 2011, has no doubt\u00a0surpassed<\/em>\u00a0even what Zinn might have expected.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0nationally<\/em>\u00a0coordinated physically brutal police attacks against demonstrators in the OCCUPY Movement throughout this nation, combined with an overwhelmingly indifferent and deceitful corporate-stream \u2018news\u2019 media, is part and parcel of just how very \u201cdangerous\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to the legitimate needs and aspirations of everyday people (nationally and internationally) Barack Obama and his corporate Democrat and Republican colleagues actually are.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama, ever the opportunist and quintessential politician, often\u00a0says<\/em>\u00a0what he knows that ordinary people want to hear but then\u00a0proceeds to underhandedly do<\/em>\u00a0virtually the exact opposite of his already obfuscated rhetoric. Thus, it is no coincidence, for example that Obama himself removed<\/em> the universal\/single payer health care option from the political table of discussion on behalf of corporate pharmaceutical and insurance company elites. Moreover, it is no mere coincidence that Obama began his presidency by, among other nefarious actions, supporting the criminal Wall Street\u00a0\u2018bail out\u2019 rip-off<\/em>\u00a0of everyday people by corporate robber barons and other assorted banksters.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding Obama\u2019s\u00a0ongoing<\/em>\u00a0U.S. outrage and debacle of Guantanamo, his extension of international U.S. kidnappings and torture known as \u2018rendition,\u2019 and his support for and extension of the unconstitutional and undemocratic \u2018Patriot Act,\u2019 Barack Obama has continued and increased the U.S. military carnage in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere on this planet of Mother Earth. Meanwhile, corporate-government legislative efforts\u00a0on Obama\u2019s watch<\/em>\u00a0are afoot to allow for the arrest and indefinite detention of\u00a0U.S.\u00a0citizens in this nation without the right to trial, etc. Obama, as Chief Executive of the U.S. Government is well aware of all of these horrors, and has chosen and chooses repeatedly to cynically play\u00a0\u2018both ends against the middle\u2019<\/span><\/em> with the masses of\u00a0everyday people being caught in the unfortunate and manipulated \u2018middle.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Irrespective of its constant fake\u00a0rhetoric<\/em>, the\u00a0actions<\/em>\u00a0of the corporate Democratic Party demonstrate that there is in fact no\u00a0substantive<\/em> difference between it and the corporate Republicans; and Barack Obama is the very epitome of this. Malcolm X quite correctly referred to them as the \u201cfoxes and wolves\u201d – the Democrats and the Republicans. The\u00a0sham<\/em>\u00a0warfare between the Democrats and Republicans is precisely that –\u00a0a sham<\/em>. It is a sham meant to keep everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people as the eternal political ping-pong balls in the cynically avaricious clutches of the Republicrats [i.e. the Democratic and Republican parties].<\/p>\n

Barack Obama\u2019s bloody war mongering military actions in\u00a0Afghanistan,\u00a0Pakistan, and throughout Africa, etc. make\u00a0a total mockery<\/em>\u00a0of the legacy of struggle for human rights of the so-called Civil Rights Movement and the Black Liberation Movement in the\u00a0United States. Indeed, Obama\u2019s dazzling rhetoric is constantly belied by his subterfuge and horrific actions as they affect\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0people, irrespective of their color, etc.<\/p>\n

There remains the\u00a0necessity and urgency<\/em>\u00a0to break free of and from the political and economic systemic death-grip of Barack Obama and his web of corporate Democrat and Republican Party minions whose only real goal is to utilize manipulated ignorance and fear as they pimp the pain of everyday people in this nation and abroad.<\/p>\n

We must\u00a0keep up and intensify<\/em>\u00a0in our actions to build a collective consciousness as we educate, agitate, and organize for genuine systemic change and a better more equal and just nation and world. This is a\u00a0long and protracted<\/em>\u00a0struggle and nothing,\u00a0absolutely nothing less<\/em> will do!<\/p>\n

Onward, then, my sisters and brothers!\u00a0Onward!<\/em><\/p>\n