Supporters and critics of Obama, please lend me an ear. Or a pair of eyes, maybe? [View all]

[Zalatix]

I've been reading DU for months, watching people go back and forth about whether to support or severely criticize Obama for this thing and that thing.

(Edited: Denounce is a bad choice of words, since I've no ill-will for those who oppose some things Obama has done.)

I think I can offer a new perspective on this. Granted it sounds like a conspiracy but my defense is that history has little, if anything, to contradict what I am saying. What I also say, I offer, is also a guide to what will happen every time we do elect a new President.

I believe that Obama, like every President since Jimmy Carter (AT LEAST), has encountered Plutocrats who have threatened to bring America down if they do not comply with their agenda. Jimmy Carter was made an example of - he refused to cooperate and was kicked right out of office. Obama refused to cooperate and got hit with the Tea Party: he got made to know that the threats against him would be carried out, in a way that he was utterly powerless to stop.

The Presidents we elect, along with the Congresscritters that we elect, fall into one of three camps: those who obey the Plutocrats, and those who get broken for resisting. Our Presidents fall into those two camps. Our Congress falls into those two groups. Only Senator Bernie Sanders defies the Plutocrats and holds office. Barney Frank did, and now he's leaving. Rep. Alan Grayson resisted the Plutocrats and he got kicked out. Bush, Reagan, and Bush II, they went along with the Plutocracy quite willingly. Clinton may have, depending on one's opinion, been the lone holdout that didn't get kicked out. I think he caved on a number of issues (i.e., NAFTA). But my point is, every President, and Congress, has handlers - ultra rich people who let them know, in no uncertain terms, that America is sitting on financial time bombs that they WILL set off if the politicians do not comply in some way with their agendas.

The fact is, you can threaten the President with economic ruin and the FBI is powerless to stop you. You can promise to tell the Middle East to stop allowing oil to come here; in my opinion, this happened in 1978. You can say you will convince China to call in America's debts, you can say you will let the bond markets downgrade America to "junk" status, you can say "America cannot pay its debts" to the wrong currency markets. Even if the President wigged out and had you put down ON THE SPOT, your threat will still be carried out and America would get trashed. Yeah, I know my theory is crazy, but if you think about it for a second, this scenario is far too easy to happen.

I offer the additional example of Ireland. Remember Fianna Fail? They were swept out of power because of a revolt against Ireland's austerity cuts. Fine Gael and the Labor Party, the two left-of-Fianna Fail parties that overthrew them, ran on an anti-austerity platform. But what happened RIGHT after they got elected? More austerity cuts. Their Plutocrat handlers got a hold of them and the only thing that COULD have happened was they threatened to drag Ireland's economy under if more cuts weren't made.

The same thing is happening all over Europe. Big threats about economic collapse are being made, and the leaders of the Western world are not seeing that a collapse is going to happen anyway.

These threats probably don't come in the form of, "Do what we say, or else". It's more like, "Well, you know, Mr. President-equivalent, if things aren't done this way, then this thing COULD happen... oh look, the Ayotollah just took office. Oops, there's an oil embargo going on. Oops, S&P just downgraded your country. We... uhm... feared that could happen."

So what is my point here? Don't blame Obama entirely for what's going on. Obama falls into the camp of the President who gives some resistance to his handlers, but at some point he has to yield; he doesn't want to be the President that oversees a MASSIVE economic collapse, triggered by angry Plutocrats who are like jilted spouses that would rather commit murder-suicide than go through a divorce.

If you replace Obama... the handlers will simply shackle them, too. Then we'll be right back here at Square Zero.