The Barack Conspiracy by Masadi

WE MAY NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH MASADI .BUT THIS IS A VIEW FROM A PROFESSOR WHO WAS EDUCATED IN USA .WE FURTHER HOPE THAT THE SINISTER SCENARIO THAT MASADI IS HYPOTHESIZING IS NOT TRUE.FOR WHAT HE WRITES BARRACK WILL BE DISCREDITED THROUGH A DELIBERATE PLAN ?

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The Barack Conspiracy:--

The Barack Conspiracy: How to Salvage a Collapsing System

M. Asadi

Conspiracy is not the modus operandi of the U.S. elite, the institutional structure at their command operates ‘sui generis’ to reproduce a system it is designed to maintain, with minor glitches that social control agencies like law enforcement can take care of. Such is the state of affairs in “normal” times. The meetings in dark rooms where policies get constructed and exceptional people chosen, made or broken, becomes a necessity only in times of crisis. Nothing brings the power elite together as a ‘status group’ than when their class structure and its projected ideology are threatened with extinction.

We are currently going through such an abnormal period, a time of crisis both in economic terms for the global capitalist structure and in terms of legitimating ideology. Therefore there was a need for ‘conspiracy’, a need for the power elite to meet in dark rooms to plan a way out of this mess with the least “real” adjustment required. Recently, the IMF termed the U.S financial crisis as potentially the worst global downturn since the “Great Depression” (The Guardian, April 10, 2008). To add to the economic woes of an elite whose system is collapsing at its very foundations, we notice a collapse in the ideology, the system legitimacy mechanism that involves militarized capitalism, the military metaphysic of this elite (as described by C.W. Mills). The U.S. Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) has not pulled off well either at home or in the international arena. According to the 2008 Pew Global Attitudes Survey, even though the U.S received an overwhelmingly negative review in this 54 country survey, there was a slight bump in the positive direction in 10 countries (compared to 2007). Pew implicitly attributes this improvement to “… many people around the world paying close attention to the U.S. presidential election” (Ref.1), and anticipating a change in U.S. foreign and economic policy, they support Barack Obama over John McCain. A similar trend regarding ‘change’ is seen domestically (inside the U.S) as well (Ref.2).

The solution to this crisis unforeseen since the Great Depression would be another New Deal type unprecedented move, where the capitalist system threatened with extinction is salvaged by incorporating socialist ideals into its machinery in a watered-down form. It would require an unprecedented move, on the scale of a Civil Rights Act of 1964, where the racially segmented structure threatened with collapse due to rebellion was salvaged by a powerless though legal framework and encouraged towards 'benign failure' thereafter. With the global capitalist system threatened with collapse and together with it the globe’s racially segmented class structure, the solution the power elite have come up with is a conspiracy of enormous proportions, a combination of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Act: Barack Obama. Obama in his rise as a candidate not only personifies change in his person, a change that is deeply desired by the majority world, an anti-neo colonial change, which in effect is an anti-‘White domination’ change, he also represents in his image economic and foreign policy change as well, a move away from the crony and militarized capitalism of the Bush era. He has been socially constructed by the U.S. elite as a conspiracy par excellence, in that he embodies the caricature of the desires of the U.S. as well as world public that have been brought to life so to speak, objectified in the form of a living breathing person. In many ways, the rise of McCain as the “expendable” Republican candidate and the ‘bad advice’ that led to the choice of Sarah Palin as running mate, and the media’s destruction of her was preplanned as a “set up” for failure. In other words, the system would be threatened by “more of the same" under McCain, so a candidate of “change” had to be constructed, and victory for him ensured. On the other hand the choice of Biden as Obama’s running mate is to ensure another Dick Cheney-like establishment politician to keep the president in check. If that is true, and let this be a falsifiable test of what is written above, Obama will win the elections, no questions asked, no surprises, October or otherwise expected.

What will be the end result of Barack Obama’s election as President of the United States? For one thing, the global economic crisis will not vanish in his first term in office, causing great discontent among the people who had pinned high hopes on him. The result of this ‘failure’ as planned by the U.S. elite would be to play upon the well developed stereotypes of Blacks in the U.S as ‘good for nothing’, to discredit Black leadership well into the future. Barack Obama might well be the first and the last (one term only) Black U.S president ever. What it does do is maintain the racial boundaries by such “objective failure” both in the U.S and around the globe while at the same time buying time for a system that oppresses the many to stabilize itself. Second, the militarized capitalism of which the masses in the U.S and around the globe are wary will also be legitimized using Obama. The GWOT (global war on terrorism) will engulf Pakistan, and might require U.S troops occupying large areas of the country’s western frontier, setting the stage for an Iran invasion. There will be little change if any in the foreign policy arena. As far as U.S reputation around the globe is concerned, it will improve, but not due to Obama’s leadership, in fact due to his perceived failure because blame now will be placed on an “other”, a well constructed “other” and not the visible face of the U.S that is always White. In the unforeseen (and unexpected) circumstance of the “Barack Conspiracy” backfiring or producing unintended consequences, he will not be allowed to last in office.

References:

(1)http://pewglobal. org/reports/display.php?ReportID=260 (retrieved October 20, 2008)

(2)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2006/02/02/CU200 60 20201345. html (retrieved October 20, 2008)

p.s. Chowk has been down for the last couple of days, did this article have anything to do with it? Your CIA sponsors bothered by it? Anyway:

In addition I would like to add that the falsifiable part (in my writing above) doesn't have much force when he is ahead in the polls (and I concur) but the election of a 'black' man is quite unprecedented and therefore unexpected, despite the polls. I guess the greater falsification lies in the results after his election and whether he lasts in office after any major change.

I think the recent (part) nationalization of banks (if it goes through) was a big change viz-a-viz the U.S. political economy, but only because they were forced to, and it is that "force" which is calling for change (both domestic and international) that they are trying to manipulate their way out of using Obama as "symbol". In that context the Reverend Wright issue as well as the 'Obama is Muslim' issue was deliberately floated and pushed for foreign consumption (as a positive, especially in regard to the ME where a lot of damage has been done during the past two Bush terms), and not for domestic consumption, and as a result it did have a much bigger effect on the foreign audience, as positive than it did on the domestic one, as negative .


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