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.
National Service Slavery
Youth, serve the Leader!*
Because you aren't doing enough for the rich and the powerful already.
You selfish bastards.
Yep. Mussolini-style fascism, imported wholesale by Herbert Hoover and rebranded as the "New Deal" by the plutocrats who pulled FDR's strings, rises again from the grave to stalk the living and suck out their lives to feed its evil.
Who am I kidding? Economic fascism - the Corporate State - is what we all grew up under. It never died.
But it still stalks the living to suck their lives and feed its evil. That part's right.
Of course the cynical might ask who's going to pay for all this. The government is beyond broke: its a few trillion in the hole. The answer is us, of course. But now how you think.
Rather, look again to Zimbabwe. Get ready to add three or four zeroes to the bills in your wallet.
And a couple more to the bills you have to pay to live.
Unearned feelings of not just self-worth but superiority are turning out, wicked fast, to be the most expensive habituation in history.
*Note: the bottom legend on the poster reads, "Everyone ten years in the Hitler Youth."