Think of “The Wizard of Oz.” Remember the one with no brain? Enough said.

1) The working class right hates Obama for trying to impose a socialist government on the United States, when in fact he is working for the most rapacious elements of unfettered capitalism. Far from trying to redistribute wealth to the masses, Obama has presided over another robbery of the people, a vast transfer of public funds from the people to the owners of the banks. And if he gets his way, he’ll do the same thing with health insurance, by forcing the public to buy private health plans.

2) Naive mainstream Democrats support Obama for precisely the same reason that the right hates him. Namely, they believe that Obama actually has socialist leanings and actually wants to accomplish some sort of populist reform, e.g. carbon reduction.

Thus, both mainstream Democrats and the working class right make the same mistake in attributing populist motives to Obama that simply aren’t there. Obama is neither a socialist nor even a committed populist. In fact, Obama is nothing more than a willing corporate lackey, a smooth-talking representative of the same forces who were behind the Bushies. Obama no more intends to turn America socialist than he intended to effect a meaningful withdrawal from Iraq. Obama no more intends to create a just health care system than he intended to bring Constitutional government back to the United States.

What is truly tragic here is that those who would take up arms to “defend” their country are actually working for the very forces who have taken over the United States. And make no mistake: the country has indeed been taken over. It has been taken over by a small group of international capitalists who have no more allegiance to the United States than they have to any of their other countries where they park their private jets. Their only allegiance is to power, profit and their own families.

Thus, these suburban rubes with their guns and placards are far from being patriots they imagine themselves to be. They are actually traitors, unwittingly foot soldiers for the corporate swine who have raped the United States. They are the divided and the conquered. They are the half of the working class that would gladly murder the other half of the working class at the behest of their corporate masters.