Shut Obama Down

Feb. 25-The collective hysteria seizing the neoliberal, vulture globalist trans-Atlantic Establishment-in the face of far-reaching strategic changes manifest in the Trump Presidency and the New Silk Road dynamic-represents a new kind of mass-psychological phenomenon. In a symbiotic conflation of group-think and group-narcissism, these advocates of the oh-so-democratic "western community of values" indulge in diatribes of the basest sort against those who think otherwise, so much so that it doesn't even occur to them that they are acting dictatorially. The most dramatic example of this clinical loss of touch with reality is surely the pathological excitement with which every statement by President Trump is commented upon. A recent example is Trump's Feb. 24 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland. He pointed out the obvious, that the United States has spent six trillion dollars or more over the last fifteen years for wars in the Middle East and Libya, and the region is much the worse for it today. If the former presidents had instead gone to the beach during that time, we would all be much better off today, he said, and added that we could have rebuilt our country three times over with that money. But the media found these views unworthy of comment, and instead hyperventilated over the fact that several of their number, who had previously distinguished themselves with particularly vicious reporting against Trump, were not invited to be part of the White House media pool. And where were these media and their co-thinker politicians, when the Bush and Obama governments-supported by the same "western community of values"-were bombing countries in the Middle East for years, and arming terrorist groups, actions which cost more than a million lives and brought unspeakable suffering to many millions of families, without which the refugee crisis would not have erupted as it has? Did they simply oppose Trump's demand that Europe must spend more money for rearmament-because there is no threat, there is no Warsaw Pact any more, and Russia has no plans for conquest, neither of the Baltic states, or Poland, or anywhere else, while NATO and the European Union (EU) have expanded right up to Russia's borders? No. These media are reacting no less hysterically with demands for the nuclear rearmament of Germany and the European Union. "Does the EU Need the Bomb?" wrote co-authors Peter Dausend and Michael Thumann of the oh-so-liberal Zeit recently; they thus betrayed where the real warmongers reside-namely, in the editorial offices of their newspaper. The neoliberal, neoconservative Establishment just can't manage to analyze the failure of its paradigm and correct it accordingly.