Obama and Romney concluded their campaigns on Monday with stock speeches full of platitudes and lies. The Republican candidate sought to take from Obama’s 2008 campaign the empty mantra of “change,” while criticizing the president for failing to be sufficiently “bipartisan.” The Democrat countered by declaring that in a second term he will ensure that “everybody is doing their fair share,” while insisting that “I know what real change looks like; you’ve seen me fight for it.”
This from a president who has, during his four years in office, continued and expanded all the right-wing policies of his predecessor, and who has overseen soaring profits and stock prices even as wages have grown at their lowest rate in generations.
The real agenda of the ruling class after the elections is being systematically concealed from the American people.
To those who matter in the elections, Obama has already made clear that his “first order of business” will be to reach an agreement with Republicans to pass trillions of dollars in cuts to social programs, particularly Medicare and Medicaid. For his part, Romney’s references to the need for bipartisanship are intended as a signal that he too is committed to working with the Democrats in quickly carrying out the demands of the banks for austerity measures.
This despite the fact austerity measures make economic problems far worse. Obama is going to make sure his former nemesis Bill Clinton is there to use Lance Armstrong strong-arm tactics to keep wayward Democrats in line.
Like I said, this will create a permanent split in the Democratic Party and force many defections--that is, if the real Democrats actually stand for something.
This is the perfect opportunity, not for the crackpot Greens, but for the Justice Party, to step in and fill the void.
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