Have Obama supporters been hypnotized?

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Date: 2008-10-03, 3:07PM EDT
Obama Supports Bailout: Where is the Outrage?! (USA)

Obama voted for FISA, for the Patriot Act, for offshore drilling. On a more immediately relevant note, Obama not only supports the bailout (granting tax breaks to the very businesses that caused this mess) but even advised that we not put riders on the bill that could allow people to have judges adjudicate bankruptcies in favor of workers. He foments fear by talking about the eternal threat of terrorism, never addressing how our government helped create these terrorists (see the BBC documentary “The Power of Nightmares”), how the war on terrorism serves to vastly increase powers of the state and how the risks of terrorism are greatly exaggerated. He has close ties to Zibignew Brzezinski, the man who during the Carter administration surreptitiously supported (through China) mass murderer Pol Pot and who deliberately created the very Al Qaeda we now fight as a means to undermine Russia. He says he is for dialogue with Iran while at the same time stating that its army is terrorist and that “nothing is off the table” in terms of dealing with them. He kowtows to Israel. He never addresses the inherent corruptness of the Federal Reserve, or the real reasons we are in Afghanistan (to put in a gas pipeline) & Iraq (to control the region’s oil) & why we are now supporting Georgia (to put in a gas pipeline) in a manner that puts this country at risk for nuclear retaliation. And while he might discuss it in a (slightly) less bombastic manner, Obama is extremely pro-war, as is his running mate.

These are just some examples of Obama’s longtime alignment with the status quo and yet a mesmerized public – in defiance of all evidence and logic – persists in the belief that this is a candidate of “change”. It is time for Obama and McCain supporters alike to challenge the false left/right paradigm that keeps us polarized and from addressing the real issues about what ails this country. Obama supporters especially need to wake up, as this candidate is particularly dangerous in his ability to engender such blind and absolute faith – again, in defiance of all evidence and logic. I would personally rather have a leader that everyone knows is the enemy, than one who has beguiled the masses into believing that he is a savior. The way in which so many people support Obama so absolutely and so unquestionably is bewildering and scary. Whenever I point out some of the aforementioned tidbits to friends or family who support Obama, I never get specific counterpoints, just "He represents change" or "He has inspired so many young people" or “It would be an inspiration to have a black man in the White House” or "He's better than McCain". People are so mesmerized by Obama or the idea of what they want him to be, they are seemingly incapable of seeing how he clearly serves the exact same interests as McCain (e.g., the military industrial complex, IAPAC, etc.) and would essentially put us on the same trajectory – perhaps even more dangerously so as so many evidently remain under the illusion that this is a man who can be trusted, a man who is apparently supernaturally immune to the pulls and pressures of corrupt special interests, a man who doesn’t require serious scrutiny.

The ability to speak eloquently about the need to remove our civil liberties, cut deals for offshore drilling and bailout corrupt banking institutions is NOT change. It is more of the same in a slicker package, one that too many seem to have gleefully swallowed because it does not require them to see the frightening reality of what this government has truly become and see through the charade of our two-party system that serves the same special interests. America is in dire need of REAL change, not just a change in rhetoric. The best way to predict a person's future behavior is according to their past and current behavior, and thus far Obama has done nothing to demonstrate how he would seriously challenge the nefarious special interests that have metastasized throughout our government and fundamentally undermined its integrity. It is time for Americans to be smarter, to seriously fine-tune our discernment, to not be complacent with just the lesser of two evils, and to wake up to the charade of the two-party system. We don’t need leaders who speak in generalities and of meaningless clichés like the “audacity of hope”. We need leaders who have the audacity to expose this government’s criminality and offer real solutions based on ethics and common sense - people like Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul and Ralph Nader – NOT people like Obama, who would defend the Constitution only when it’s convenient, who boasts of his “audacity of hope” when what this country really needs is the audacity of brave and right action, and who would lead mesmerized millions to happily and deludingly forfeit their rights and expectations towards a future of more of the same and worse.

As so eloquently put by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “…there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.” Real change is possible once WE the American public starts to change, once we humbly confront our emotional and intellectual investments in a system stopped serving us long ago, once we stop making excuses for leaders who consistently stick with policies that are “safe”, “politic” and “popular”, once we start becoming leaders ourselves. That would be truly audacious.