AMushure mekunge Bill Clinton atora chigaro muna Ndira 1993, aine zvivimbiso zve "kuisa vanhu pamberi," akakurumidza kudzikisa "vanhu," achiisa simba rake rakasimba rezvematongerwo enyika mukusundidzira NAFTA, kudzikisa kushomeka kwebhajeti, "kugadzirisa" hutano, kubhadhara mari kune vanoisa mari. Zvisungo zveMexico, hutsotsi hwakasimba uye mutemo wehugandanga (uye kuzadza majeri), kuchengetedza bhajeti remauto zvichitevera kufa kweSoviet Union, uye kurwa neYugoslavia. Clinton akatadza kuvandudza hurongwa hwekurapwa, asi akapedzisa kudzikiswa kwemari uye kupera kweGlass-Steagall Act iyo yakaganhurirwa fungidziro yebhangi. Mune izvi nedzimwe nzira Clinton akabatsira mukupera kwema1990s stock market bubble.
Kutadza kwake kuitira vanhu kwakabatsira kuunza kukunda kweGingrich-Republican musarudzo uye kuita kwaClinton kwakazara mukukunda kwaBush uye makore ekuwedzera kwekirasi uye hondo dzekunze.
Kuita kwaVaObama kunosimbisa kuti iyi maitiro ekutadza kweDemocratic kushandira zvido zvakakurumbira, zvichiteverwa nekurasikirwa kwezvematongerwo enyika kweDemocratic, uyezve kuenda kurudyi, ikozvino kwakavakirwa muhurongwa. Izvi zvinoguma nekukura kukuru kubva mukuwedzera kwakasimba kwekusaenzana uye bhizinesi / mari / simba revakuru, kudzikira kwakafanana kwevashandi vakarongeka, uye kusavapo kweimwe nzvimbo dzakasimba dzesimba kune vagariwo zvavo. Izvi zvinoratidzwa muhurongwa hwezvematongerwo enyika umo mari inotonga uye vanokwikwidza, kuti vashande, vanofanirwa kukwidza yakawanda. Pane de facto primary umo vanokwikwidza vakakomba vanofanirwa kukumbira mari hombe uye, mukuita izvi, vanoongororwa nemari iyoyo. Vanokwikwidza kunze kwehurongwa hwemapato maviri, kunyangwe nerukudzo rwaRalph Nader, havapinde mumari yekutanga uye havagone kukwikwidza muUS zvematongerwo enyika. Kurongedzerwa kweDare Repamusorosoro nevane kodzero, nerubatsiro rweDemocratic, kwabatsira mune iyi plutocratization process, ichangosvika Citizens United v. FEC, iyo inofanirwa kuita kuti kutonga kwemakambani kwezvematongerwo enyika kuve kwakakwana.
Vasiri vemakambani vanogona kukwikwidza kana paine nhepfenyuro yedemocracy yaizoita kuti vavhoterwa vave nhau maererano nezvavanonyatsokodzera pazvigaro uye kuti zvirongwa zvavo zvaive zvine musoro uye zvichienderana nezvido zveveruzhinji, zvinodiwa, uye zvakakosha. Asi izvi hazvisizvo. Nhepfenyuro dzakakura muUnited States dzave dzepakati, dzakanyanya kutengeserana, dzakanyanya kushambadza, uye dzakanyatsobatanidzwa muhupfumi hwezvematongerwo enyika. Iyo yakanyanyisa-kurudyi-bapiro chikamu chenhau, inotungamirwa naFox, yave yakakura, yakawedzera hutsinye, uye inokwanisa kuseta toni uye kuchengetedza "liberal media" mumutsara. Hapana kana mumwe wavo akafanana ne "populism," uye havazopikisa kukura kwemauto-industrial complex's (MIC's) uye kuraira pamusoro pezviwanikwa uye "simba rekufungidzira" rakabatana nehurumende. Izvo zvakacherechedzwa kuti pese kana maDemocrats achinetsekana nezvematongerwo enyika, mhinduro huru yenhau ndeyekuti vanofanirwa kuenda kurudyi, kure neruboshwe rwekugoverazve maitiro uye "kusasimba" pamitemo yekunze. A George W. Bush ari muhofisi haatarisana nezvipingamupinyi zvakadaro sezvaanogovera patsva mari nehupfumi zvichikwira nekusimudzira murairo weMIC pamusoro pezviwanikwa uye fungidziro yesimba; kuperevedza kwake kunorerutswa.
VaObama vakaita sevachatyora pateni iyi, kunyangwe ichi chaive manyepo. Akakunda, akabatsirwa zvikuru nedambudziko rehupfumi munguva yekupera kwaBush, nerutsigiro rwakawanda, kusanganisira vazhinji vaifunga kuti aireva shanduko โ kunyangwe tsigiro yakawanda iyi yaive yakavakirwa pakutya vamwe Bush-Cheney uye nekutenda kuti kunyangwe muDemocrat akakanganisa. kungava budiriro huru. Asi Obama akanga aongororwa. Akagamuchira mari yakawanda kubva kune zvemari uye zvemakambani uye, sezvinozivikanwa, akaita chibvumirano neinishuwarenzi nemishonga yemishonga kudzivirira kupikisa basa ravo guru mune chero shanduko yehutano hwehutano. Hongu, Obama akawanawo mari yakawanda mumipiro midiki kubva pahwaro hwevakawanda (inoti isingasviki hafu yese), asi haana kuita dhiri navo, achingovimbisa shanduko uye nguva itsva isina kujeka.
VaObama havana kupa shanduko, asi kuenderera mberi, uye vakashandira nharaunda yezvemari / yemakambani neMIC pane zvishuwo zvehukuru hwavo. Izvi zvakaonekwa pamberi pesarudzo yake, nerutsigiro rwake rwekubvisiswa mari kwaBush, kusarudza kwaakaita Cold Warrior Joe Biden semukwikwidzi, uye kuzvipira kwake kuhondo yeAfghan yakawedzera. Sarudzo dzake dzedare remakurukota uye sarudzo dzevapi vezano vepamusoro nevakuru vaiudzawo: Geithner naSummers, Peter Orszag, Hillary Clinton, Arne Duncan (muvengi wezvikoro zveveruzhinji), naRobert Gates, akananga kubva kuBush administration. Zvinozivikanwa kuti Obama haasati atomboedza kudzoreredza habeas corpus kana kubvisa Military Commissions Act ye2006, uye akarwira rusununguko rwevapari vehondo vehutongi hwekutanga uye kodzero yekubata vakaziviswa varwi vevavengi, kunyangwe vagari vemuUS, nekusingaperi. , uyewo kuvauraya. Glenn Greenwald anonyora, "Barack Obama, saGeorge Bush pamberi pake, akati ane simba rekuraira kuti vagari vemuAmerica vapondwe zvichibva pamashoko asina kuvimbiswa, asina mhosva, asina kuvharidzirwa ekuti vane hukama nehugandanga uye 'kutyisidzira kunoramba kuripo kune vanhu vemuUS. uye zvaunofarira.' Havana kodzero yekupomerwa mhosva, hapana kutongwa, havakwanisi kupikisa zvavanopomerwa" ("Presidential Assassinations of US Citizens," Salon, Ndira 27, 2010).
Iyo ichangobva kuziviswa kutonhora kutsva pakushandisa discretionary inonzi haibhadhare Pentagon (uye imwe "chengetedzo") mabhajeti. Vachitaura pamusangano uchangoburwa wevashandi vemauto makuru, Munyori weDziviriro Gates akavimbisa, sekureva kwemutauriri wake, "kushanda neWhite House kuchengetedza kukura kwakasimba mumabhajeti ePentagon nekufamba kwenguva" (Jen Dimascio, "Robert Gates anosangana nevakuru veindasitiri yekudzivirira, " Politico, Ndira 13, 2010). Uku kutyorwa kwemusimboti uye kukuvadza kune hwaro hwaObama misa kupfuura zvese asi zvinotarisirwa zvakanyanya.
Kuenderera mberi kwaVaObama negwara remitemo yaVaGeorge Bush kune dzimwe nyika kuri kushomekawo. "Kubvisa" kwake muIraq inhema, sekuwedzera kwake kwehondo yeAfghan-Pakistani kuri kwechokwadi. Kupunzika kwake mukusundidzira kugadzirisa muPalestine kwapera, kuguma nekurwiswa kwakashata paUN Goldstone Report paGaza uye hapana kuramba chero kwakawedzera kucheneswa kwemadzinza eIsrael. Israel iri kutyisidzira zvakare kurwisa Rebhanoni neSyria, pasina mhinduro inomanikidza kubva kuWashington. VaObama nemunyori wavo wezvekudyidzana nedzimwe nyika vari kutyisidzirazve Iran nezvirango zvakawedzerwa, kana zvisingaite. Panyaya idzi iye nebato rake rezvematongerwo enyika vanoshanda sechikamu chebato rinomiririra pro-Israel.
Zvisinganyanyi kucherechedzwa ndezvokuti mhirizhonga yaVaObama yezvekune dzimwe nyika inoenderera mberi uye inogona kutopfuura kudheerera kwaBush uye kufungidzira kwemagetsi. Kudyidzana kweUS mukupidigura hurumende yakasarudzwa, ine vanhu vazhinji yeHonduras kwakadzosera kumashure panguva yekutsigirwa neUS kuNational Security States muLatin America. Bush angadai akadarika hutsinye hwakaitwa naObama muHaiti, uko mhinduro yeUS pakudengenyeka kwavo kwaiparadza kwainge kwechiuto - basa rakasaririra, nerubatsiro rushoma-mvura-yekurapa-pekugara, uye kunyange kuvharirwa kubatsira sezvo nhandare dzendege dzakadzivirirwa. Mauto emauto eUS uye kumhara kwaHillary Clinton (ona John Pilger, "Kubiwa kweHaiti," New Statesman, January 27, 2010; Jesse Hagopian, "Occupation in Humanitarian Clothing," Common Dreams.org, Ndira 24, 2010; Ben Ehrenreich, "Sei Takatarisa Kuchengetedza Haiti Pane Kubatsira VaHaiti?," Slate, Ndira 21, 2010).
Kumwe kuLatin America, mitemo yaObama yanga ichidzoreka, paine ruvengo rwakawanda rwekusiya hurumende mudunhu, kushandirapamwe muHonduras coup, nekutora zvigaro zvinomwe zvemauto muColombia izvo zvese zvinotumira meseji ye "shanduko" kune yakaipa.
Pasi rose, zvigaro zvemauto eUS zviri kuwedzera, kwete kuita chibvumirano. Kutenderedzwa kweRussia uye kutevedzana kwakasimba kwemitambo yehondo munzvimbo dzeBaltic, Caspian, Mediterranean, uye Western Pacific inoenderera mberi, kudyidzana kwepedyo neGeorgia uye kuedza kuiunza muNATO kunoenderera mberi, sezvinoita hurongwa hwekuisa zvombo zvinokandwa pamiganhu yeRussia nekumhiri. (ona Rick Rozoff, "Bases, Missiles, Wars: US Consolidates Global Military Bases," Misa NATO, Ndira 26, 2010).
VaObama havangadaro here vakachinja nzira, vakatengesa kuumbwa panzvimbo yezvido zvevanhu, uye nekushandura chimiro chezvakakosha munyika? Angadai asina here kushandisa chikuva chake chine simba kuita kuti nyaya yacho ishanduke chaiyo, kuunganidza mhomho, uye, netsigiro yavo, kutiita kuti tifambe munzira itsva? Ehe, hapana humbowo hwekuti ainyatsoda kuita izvi, asi handitendi kuti angadai akazviita kunyangwe dai aida uye akagadzirira kutora njodzi dzinorema mukuita.
Zvipingamupinyi zvemasangano zvakakurisa. Kwete chete maRepublicans, asi chikamu chikuru chemaDemocrats akasarudzwa ari mushishi kunharaunda yemari uye yebhizinesi, MIC, uye pro-Israel lobby. Vangadai vakaramba kuenda pamwe nekudzikisira kwakanyanya mubhajeti rePentagon, mari yakawanda yemabasa everuzhinji uye rubatsiro-kubhadharisa vagariwo zvavo, kana imwe chete inobhadhara hutano hwehutano. Vemabhizinesi nharaunda vangadai vakaramwa mabasa, pamwe nekukwira kukuru kwemari uye kuramwa mabasa. Kudzikiswa kwemauto ekunze kwenyika kungadai kwakakonzera kusagadzikana mune vezvenhau nezve kushaya simba kweDemocratic uye kutengesa, kusagadzikana kunogona kuitika, uye pamwe kuvhota kwemauto kudzoreredza kurongeka. Kunyange kufamba zvishoma nezvishoma uye kungwarira munzira idzi kungapikiswa nehasha uye kungangokonzera dambudziko rezvematongerwo enyika.
Zvipingamupinyi zvemasangano pane kunyangwe shanduko yakasununguka zvine mwero, ndinotenda, zvakakura kwazvo panguva ino munhoroondo yeUS. Kutevedzana kunoratidzika kunge kwakavakirwa-mukati ndekwekuti maDemocrats akunde apo neapo mushure mekutonga kweRepublican iyo inoshandira zvakabudirira vapfumi neMIC, asi ichikanganisa huwandu hwevanhu; uye, panyaya yaObama, kukunda nekuputsika kukuru kwekudonha kwehupfumi munguva yesarudzo. Asi maDemocrats parizvino haakwanisi kushandira vepakati nevarombo kana kuve neMIC, nekuda kwekutsamira kwavo kune vapfumi, MIC, uye Lobby, uye basa renhau mukutsigira izvo zvakafanana zvevakuru. Pasina kumwe kwekuenda kunoshanda kune zvavanoda, vagariwo zvavo vanosiya maDemocrats uye sisitimu inoenda mberi kurudyi. Iyi igwara rinoratidza zvakaipa kune ramangwana.