Letter from Lhasa, number 281.
Carnevali defends Obama
by
Roberto Abraham Scaruffi
Carnevali, E., In difesa di Barack Obama, Gli eBook di
MicroMega, Italy, September 2012.
(Carnevali 2012).
Emilio Carnevali
...An interesting ‘defence’
of Obama and also very useful about Italic stereotypes.
What in Italy is or was
called blocked political system and consociativism, in the USA becomes a
normal political system. In addition, in the USA there is such an influence of
the militarist-police bloc and of the various industrial and financial
interests on government, that it is really irrelevant who wins Presidential and
other elections.
Generally, a US President
does not control ‘his’ own formal majority, although Presidential powers be
vast so the President can both act outside or against Congress and try buying a majority for what he wish to do,
if he really wish to do something. Another expression avoided about US politics
and institutions is transformism. US
parliamentary institutions are highly transformist.
All the countries of the
Anglophone area have blocked political
systems, and are consociative and
tranformist. What does not weakens
their high efficiency, apart from military expenses frequently disjoined from
whatever rationality. It is the US case. The USA have not a Crown balancing
private and myopic oligarchies.
A banal politological
rule is that general elections are won on the centre. It is not really relevant
where a US Presidential candidate come from. Biographies finally are literary
creations. For getting massive financing for becoming one of the two credible
candidates, he/she need to show to be buyable from the US financial, militarist
and industrial oligarchies. If one is credibly buyable, one is in the couple of
opposing candidates with pair probability to win elections.
What was finally the
policy difference between Obama and his Republican opponent? That Obama
introduced his Obamacare. Nothing
else. His foreign policies are neocons
policies. His internal ones idem. He massively subsidised the banking system.
It is everyday shown that a subsidised financing system go on with its
traditional policies were producing bankruptcy. Careful policy makers could
easily find different solutions than awarding predations or permitting
bankruptcies would have damaged small savers and the whole economy. In
addition, the US financial and banking system continues to be deregulated.
Obama followed his usual way of doing formal declarations or general laws but
without any real implementation. ...That from Guantanamo to finance.
Is Obamacare a real innovation? Obama extended the bases of the health
system without changing its foundations. The interests of the pharmaceutical
industries, generally against people health (they earn on diseases!) have not
been touched. Perhaps they have been extended. The US health system already was
very expensive, the most expensive of the world (relatively to the GDP). Obama
extended it, without rethinking that human body should be something different
from a pure pretext for making money.
After Carter, the
extremist US militarist-bloc feared that it could have another President not
fully aligned to its bloody needs. Bill Clinton was a George H. W. Bush CIA and
Reagan Presidency creation for avoiding such a danger. Clinton marginally
contradicted some extremist militarist bloc aspirations and he was object of
wide defamations although not removed from office. Basically, Bill Clinton
remained the confidence man of the extremist militarist bloc and of its
extremist Republican supporters. Republicans do not win elections because there
are aligned with extremist militarism but because extremist militarism has
become common ground of US rhetoric and it is masked behind other programs be
them the apparent ‘less government’ of Republicans or the apparent social
programs of Democrats. Once in office, such programmatic opposition does not
really exist, because the main oligarchic interests determine the real policies
are finally implemented.
Such a Bill Clinton
immediately appeared as the Obama guarantor, guarantor not in front of people
but in front of militarist oligarchies. For becoming President, a candidate
needs a lot of money. Popularity depends on the political advertising machine,
not on a candidate’s qualities. The only quality really required to a candidate
is to be adaptable, obedient. It is better if one is a good actor, although
idiotic mind-controlled chaps as the last Bush showed it be not indispensable.
They micro-chipped his mind and, with nazi-style, Hollywood-style, scenarios,
despite he constantly appeared as lost, he was sold to idiotic masses.
The show about
Guantanamo is exemplar. Obama officially ordered to close the concentration and
torture camp but masked his desire not to close it behind a connected request
of financing such a closure. The financing bill was rejected, as nearly everybody
agreed to do. It was just a show. If he really wanted to close Guantanamo it
would have been sufficient to follow the classic administrative way and to
order to let it without prisoners and to change the Bush de facto legislation about concentration and torture camps. On the
contrary, Obama reinforced such a legislation legalizing in same way Guantanamo,
or making it less illegal that before. A Guantanamo concentration and torture
camp without prisoners and without wardens did not need financing. It would
have saved costs. Asking for a financing for closing it was the Obama mask for
not closing it. Obama masked himself behind Congress.
As told, Obama legalized
abuses and tortures, in addition to infinite detention without trial. He moved
in the same directions about assassinations all around the world. The fact that
he now sign one be one the assassination orders, with connected massacres
(‘collateral damages’), makes more, not less, legal the assassination policies.
He receives dossiers built from some dozen committees of various bureaucracies
of the death machine and he signs. There is no contradictory and not even any
real control. The USA (the UK too, and their clients) have a long history of
persecutions, massacres, assassinations implemented only because bureaucracies
need to justify their existence and extend their financing. Such is the US
death machine. A good business, ...for someone.
Such policies, infinite
detentions and Presidential assassinations, are implemented also against US
citizens, so without any real legal right even for US nationals. The
militarization of the US dictatorship is accomplished!
Such is Obama. Those who
believe, or simulate to believe, that faces change policies can be excited by
the usual false opposition between the two main candidates. Reality is
different. The two main candidates would not be such if they had whatever real
reciprocal difference. None of them can give a personal print to concrete
policies. They support them only with different faces and rhetoric. US Real
governments are soviet structures. They work by committees which exalt the
worst not the best of their members.
Obama cannot be better
than Romney. Romney cannot be better than Obama.
Carnevali, E., In difesa di Barack Obama, Gli eBook di
MicroMega, Italy, September 2012.
