Julian Assange and Wikileaks Campaign Directly Against Obama!

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49. Julian Assange speaks much truth in that video. But then, again...

President Obama, despite his best intentions, can only operate within the political and economic boundaries set for him by the 1%. He can only do so much. And the fact is, he serves at the pleasure of the 1%, and only nominally at the pleasure of the People.

Julian Assange is actually campaigning against those who limit the ability of President Obama and others we elect to solve the problems created by the greed of the 1%, and not against the President, who he apparently considers personally irrelevant and powerless insofar as his subjection to the restrictions placed by the 1% on his ability to govern according to the Will of the People is concerned.

What I find immensely disappointing and disturbing in the video is Julian saying that the only vote that matters is a vote for Wikileaks. He is clearly ignoring the fact that President Obama, despite the limitations placed on him in the realms of economic and political policies, will still be a million times better than Romney, based solely on domestic social policy alone, and Julian is very, very wrong for not acknowledging this reality, and just shot himself in the foot by denying this difference between republicans and Democrats.

We, as American citizens, while still being subject to the economic and political dictates of the 1%, will benefit so much more in the area of domestic social issues under a President Obama than we would under Mitt Romney. This is our very basic reality in the US. If President Obama is not reelected, many American citizens will unnecessarily suffer grave injustices and deprivations for many years to come.

So. despite the fact that there is much truth in that video, I am forced to give Julian Assange a huge thumbs down, no, actually, a fuck off, for his failure to consider how many more people will suffer at the most basic levels under Romney than they would under an Obama presidency. It is what it is. We do the best we can with what we can, and there is certainly no reason to make it any worse without serious necessity to do so.

There is a clearly a huge difference between Democrats and republicans in the areas of social and environmental issues. On this basis alone, I would vote for Democrats. Republicans do nothing that is positive and good whatsoever, Democrats at least do some good. Julian Assange should retract this video, re-word it, and post it again, because it is a huge untruth to say that the only vote that matters is a vote for Wikileaks, and by saying this, he greatly detracts from the the truths expressed in the bulk of the video.

In fact, if this clear falsehood was not present in the video, I would actually have been really impressed, and would have sent Wikileaks a small donation immediately. But unless those untruths are edited out of the video, I will never donate to Wikileaks again.

There are many things that have disappointed many of us during the past four years, but most of us fully recognize the limitations in the system under which many elected officials are compelled to operate. To me, this is a core issue that Occupy is all about: Removing the 1% from power by actions taken from outside the political system, and subsequently removing the restraints placed on genuine democratic policies placed upon them by the 1%, so that We the People, the 99%, can better control our own destinies through genuine self-governance, rather than simply be pawns subjugated by a wealthy and powerful elite.

It should be apparent to any reasonable person that our elected officials are, to a large degree, held captive by wealthy and powerful private interests. If someone can't recognize this, then, in my estimation their opinions are not worth considering, because their perceptions, and/or powers of discernment, and/or ability to logically and objectively evaluate factually, would clearly be untrustworthy.

Obviously, many of us recognize this reality.

The global power of the financial centers is so great, that they can afford not to worry about the political tendency of those who hold power in a nation, if the economic program (in other words, the role that nation has in the global economic megaprogram) remains unaltered. The financial disciplines impose themselves upon the different colors of the world political spectrum in regards to the government of any nation. The great world power can tolerate a leftist government in any part of the world, as long as the government does not take measures that go against the needs of the world financial centers. But in no way will it tolerate that an alternative economic, political and social organization consolidate. For the megapolitics, the national politics are dwarfed and submit to the dict ates of the financial centers. It will be this way until the dwarf rebel.