2011! What wonderful things will our glorious leaders bestow upon us this coming year? We have the 2012 presidential campaign to start listening to – which I’m looking forward to providing a few good laughs. I’m not going to make any predictions but will be looking to see if Obama decides he needs to bulk up his presidentialness by attacking Iran; whether or not Julian Assange will be forced to the United States for a show trial; or if our leaders will cut the final strings of the American social safety net under the Orwellian banner of “fiscal responsibility”.
I’m not much of one for new year’s resolutions but apparently Obama has pledged in his to work together with both parties to… well, like, grow jobs, or create more economies, or something about the middle class. To be honest I couldn’t really sit through all the catch phrases and political platitudes. Essentially it is this: Obama’s new year’s resolution is to continue his tried and true strategy of bipartisanship. As we have gone over again and again, this essentially means playing both sides of the field to ensure defeat. He will speak of great reforms or ideals, and in the next breath speak of the importance of both parties coming together to achieve these grandiose plans; all the while knowing that such bipartisanship is the surest way to dilute, stifle, and kill anything meaningful for the working classes. In the end, the product rolled out for us to marvel at will be a mutilated, defunded, half-answer to our problems, that in all likelihood will make the problems worse. This will be touted as a remarkable victory for America by our complicit media. Rinse and repeat.
Not much of a new year’s resolution if you ask me. Maybe forgiving third world debt, pulling all our soldiers out of foreign borders, or ending the racist war on drugs would have been more meaningful to someone besides Obama and his bosses. So, as it stands, we are stuck with more of exactly what we have been fed for two years (and really, decades), branded as something new, of course. I can only hope that our status quo cannot limp on much longer.
So far, all I have to look forward to is a new season of Jersey Shore and the Republican primaries oops that’s next year.
