You Can’t Afford Him
That's the one thing you need to take away from today's investiture of the new Führer: you can't afford him. Not you, not me, not your family, not your friends. Certainly not the American people.
The good news is, the United States - the Empire - can't afford him either.
Of course the O-Bomber is a "post-partisan uniter," as reason puts it, snarkily and correctly. That's because there's no difference between the parties - not in practical terms. Not in terms of what they actually do.
Both parties do what governments are instituted among men to do: to preserve and increase the power, privilege, and profit of the ruling classes. What rational reason is there to suppose government would do anything but serve the interests of its proprietors?
And as if there was any doubt that, as I've told you before, "Change" means "More of the same, only harder and worse," recall that the newly anointed Dear Leader has voted for or otherwise endorsed pretty much all of the evil things his predecessor did - when he hasn't outdone him in militaristic zeal, as when he proved himself far to the right of even the rabidly anti-freedom Sarah Palin on issues like killing brown people in Afghanistan and Iran to make them better.
He endorsed war, torture, spying, and the real war which is being waged against American liberty - not to mention American property and American lives.
And most of all he, like his mentally-deficient sock puppet of a predecessor, vigorously supports a "bailout" of 8.5 trillion dollars, and rising. Which constitutes history's greatest known transfer of wealth to the very wealthy.
Make no mistake about it: under O-Bomber's management the US will become even more overtly fascistic: more madly avid to with impose the will of the Empire's rulers not just on foreigners, but on their American cattle. It's every bit as messianic and non-reality based as the last team.
That's why none of us can afford it. The plutocracy's icy grip will touch us, every one, in adverse and probably terrible ways.
But here's the good news - and granted, it's highly qualified. Dear plutocrats: you can't afford him either.
The government is beyond broke: it's tens of trillions in the hole. It can't afford the mad schemes it's carrying out now. And the plutocracy and its current puppet are deranged enough to desire to try doing far, far more of what they already can't.
We are witnessing the fall of Empires. Not just this one, but of the possibility of Empire. There's real hope.
Audacity too, if you like.
But it's going to hurt. Aside from the fact that our rulers and their overseers will do as much as possible to shift the pain to us - what is now called concentrating benefit and socializing loss (which is a thumbnail of what government does, after all) - the only arrow the State has left in its quiver now is hyperinflation. Which means: Zimbabwe here we come.
This will hurt. A lot. But it also means that the government cannot fulfill the promises it's made in the past, whether it's to enrich the rich and powerful under the guise of stimulus, to extend hegemony to the entire world, or to monitor our every action in real time. Much less the even more grandiose agenda of aggrandizement the plutocrats are going to announce through their shiny new mouthpiece. And are probably beginning to implement as I write. (I predict some hideous surprises right quick.)
They can't do it. They will only fail faster.
Prepare to duck.
And then prepare to live in a world which, while it will not be perfect, will be better: the world of freedom.
That, ultimately, is why the ruling class cannot afford their gaudy new front man: by carrying out their will he will cost them everything.