Bipartisan Plutocracy: Obama is a Political Puppet

The outspoken scholar and Princeton University professor Cornel West has been viciously attacked by many on the political left, especially supporters of President Obama.  Why?  Because he had the courage to call Obama a “black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”   For more of West’s views see this article

Most of the attention has been on the use of the word “black,” as if the black Cornel West had made a racist comment.  In fact, West got it right because he and some other true progressives have condemned Obama for not being an authentic progressive.  Right again, Obama has never shown himself to be a true leftist progressive, even though many on the conservative right may think he is one.  West thinks Obama “has no backbone.”

Over at FutureofCapitalism.com this point was made: Obama “has basically enshrined the too-big-to-fail banks while also propping up GE and the firms that will benefit from ObamaCare.”  True enough.

With a corrupt two-party plutocracy elections no longer offer the promise of much needed reforms.  Odds are that Tea Party people will realize that their favored Republicans will also not deliver a rehabilitated, honest government serving the interests or ordinary Americans.   Read more at www.globalresearch.ca