Barack Obama was the quintessential “Trojan Horse” for “the estabslihment” in the 21st Century. Trump’s surprise election victory in 2016 was due in large measure to the lack of voter participation when almost 100 million eligible voters chose not to vote. Moreover 12% of previous Obama voters switched parties and voted for Trump.
This phenomenon was an expression of voter anger over the Obama’s abandonment of the white, as well as the Black, working class that elected him in 2008 only to experience their standard of living deteriorate dramatically during his tenure.
Obama’s response to the 2008 economic collapse was to rescue Wall Street, banks, and corporations while refusing to prosecute a single person involved in the widespread criminal fraud that created the financial crisis, while at the same time allowing 5.1million working class citizens to be evicted from their homes—a classic example of “socialism for the rich”.
“Obamacare” was a gift to insurance and pharmaceutical giants while his military interventions, drone assassinations, and prosecution of whistleblowers (e.g. Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assange) eclipsed that of all his predecessors combined.
While enjoying a supermajority in congress, Obama propsed no national healthcare program, no increase in the minimum wage, no pro-union legislation, no reduction of mass incarceration, and no codification of Rowe vs Wade, yet mainstream Democrats and the liberal media seem not to have noticed.
Many, if not most of Bernie Sanders proposed programs in his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns were what Democratic voters expected when they elected Barack Obama, ”the first Black American President.”—in 2009. Not only did Obama not enact any progressive legislation during his eight year tenure, he made certain that none were enacted in 2020 by playing a major role in sabotaging Sanders’ presidential campaign even though Sanders held a significant lead in the polls over Joe Biden as well as in polls pitting Sanders vs. Trump.
In short, Obama spent his entire tenure proving that he wasn't "Black" to Wall Street, multinational corporations, Big Pharma, billionaires, and the national security state when the whole reason he was elected was because he was Black.
Who would have thought that a young Black activist constitutional lawyer from Harvard with a Muslim name would be a shill for Wall Street, oligarchs, and the military-industrial-complex? The CIA couldn’t have invented a better cover.
The audacity and mendacity of the false “hope and change” Obama promised to a desperate working class during the worse financial crisis since the Great Depression was biblical in scale, and could be called “The Great Deception.” His betrayal was so profound that in 2016 voters chose to take a chance on a narcissistic, megalomaniacal TV gameshow host rather than vote for Hillary Clinton, who represented Obama’s failed policies.
Trump proved to be just as insane and dangerous as many predicted, and we now have President Joe Biden, an arch-conservative neoliberal warmongering political hack from Delaware, a corporate tax haven, who exploded the US prison population by authoring the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill, supported the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, and bombed Syria immediately after his election to demonstrate to the world that “America is back!”
The full extent Obama’s, Biden’s and his son' Hunter’s involvement and financial gain in the corrupt politics of Ukraine prior to Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022 has yet to be fully revealed as of this writing.
Barack Obama presided over the “neo-feudalism” that best describes the reality of today’s working class (e.g. Amazon and Walmart employees) while further enriching Wall Street, elites, and the military industrial complex. The lives of millions of women, children, and men abroad were extinguished during his expansion of US interventionist wars and drone attacks, in which 90% of the fatalities were civilians. Obama’s invasion, destruction, and murder of Muammar Gaddafi turned Libya, formerly the wealthiest African nation, into a failed state with open slave markets. This is Obama’s actual “legacy”.
His record notwithstanding, Obama remains a wildly popular celebrity among the “woke” left, and lives in a multi-million dollar estate on Martha’s Vineyard entertaining other celebrities such as George Clooney, Beyoncé, and Oprah. These are the “consequences” of his betrayal, and they represent a triumph of “style over substance”; a victory that remains unexamined by the “authoritative media”.
This is a video of my Ecuadorian jazz students performing, “How Long Has This Been Going On”?