RESISTANCE

What the (re)election of George W. Bush means. Unless...

Domestically
The ‘holy alliance’ between the most fundamentalist group in the United States (the Evangelical Christians), the 'new' apostles of the free (sic!) market and the most corrupted leadership in American history has brought the country to a point of non-return. Being the corporate media that excellent servant doing with extreme discipline its job, which is to say the propaganda for its master, the only way to dissent has become an act of resistance. As a result, a large part of ordinary Americans have been transformed in a free-thinking army ready to follow the leader, no matter what. There have been examples in history, but even the worst of them turn pale if one looks at the present moment.

Of course the elites won’t raise their voices. Why should they? The elites, conservative or ‘liberal’, have nothing to loose and all to gain. Some of them will even blame the ‘ignorant people’ who voted for Bush. Do they (the elites) care for the ‘ignorant people’? Why should they? Have ever, anywhere in the world, the elites cared for the people? They have always despised democracy, which they fear. Not a word on the elites’ own functional role. Not a word on their own cowardice. Not a word on the only, real taboo in the United States: the class conflict, the social conflict. Senator Kerry, The New York Times and many others said once again: the real problem now is to find UNITY. Unity of the elites, of course, and unity against popular movement and social justice.

Internationally
Militarism will be the magic word and a perpetual warfare against an abstract enemy will precipitate the human species in an unthinkable darkness. Forget human rights. Forget international law. Forget the International Criminal Court. Forget the United Nations (its Charter and its spirit, because of course the Security Council will find back its discipline). Forget international justice. And about peace, just read Tacitus: "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.”

Iraqi people – those who will be so ‘lucky’ to survive the massive crimes against humanity and genocidal policies perpetrated by Bush, Blair and C. – will be reduced to slaves, their land contaminated forever with nuclear waste (uranium and plutonium), their culture humiliated. Palestinians will follow the Native Americans and the First Australians.

Language
Many important voices of dissent around the world have been making comparisons with the recent past. The words Fascism and Nazism have been used, together with other words such as Empire, Imperialism, Colonialism and Capitalism. The task to describe this new Era is a complicated one. I would suggest the use of ‘Americanism’ as it’s been used by some, for example John Pilger (The New Statesman 26 October 2004).
Americanism – which has nothing to do with ordinary Americans – could summarize the analogies with the recent and less recent past and at the same time explain the level of sophistication reached by this system and its propaganda.

Unless...
It would seem there is no hope left at this point. They have the money, the power, the media, and the guns. Any hope left? Yes, lots of hopes. If only we learn to organize, work together, stop building fictitious walls. If only we learn to stop playing with ‘their’ moral, social and cultural rules. If only we stop following the show business and the star system. If only we go back to think. If only we stop giving them power. Never in recent history have there been so many and so great chances for change. Never in recent history have 'we, the people of the world' been so united. We hold the key. It’s not 'too close to call'. Resistance!