"The Awakening of a Great People"

'The Awakening of A Great People'

 

by Harley Schlanger

"I've never been political before, but I knew I had to be here."

 

These words, spoken by a demonstrator to a local television reporter, outside a $3,000-per-person fundraiser last week, at a ritzy hotel in San Francisco's "[S]Nob Hill" district, which "starred" President Barack Obama, have been repeated by a growing number of Americans across the nation. The mass-strike process, which Lyndon LaRouche first identified in the Summer of 2009, when angry Americans turned Congressional town hall meetings into demonstrations against Obama's Nazi health-care policy, is evolving, and maturing into a "monster," which is terrifying the once-complacent so-called political class.

While incumbent Congressmen and their media flaks initially tried to dismiss it as a momentary explosion, manipulated by Republican operatives against a Democratic administration, they are now praying it will disappear, as they see it gaining momentum, and increasing in ferocity, seemingly everywhere.

(As for this process being under the control of Republican operatives: Anyone who has ever heard the boring and unimpressive former U.S. Rep. Dick Armey (R-Tex.)—who is being given credit, by many in the media, as the organizer of the demonstrations—would know this is not possible. As we say in Texas, "That boy couldn't organize a two-car funeral procession.")

What seemed at first to be an inchoate, disorganized response, has forced its way onto everyone's political radar screen, as its participants are no longer content to merely demand explanations at town hall meetings. In San Francisco, in Trenton, in Phoenix, there are ever-larger demonstrations, with participants from across the political spectrum. And these people are increasingly marching into voting booths, as a "throw the bums out" mentality is becoming hegemonic.

The San Francisco demonstration may be indicative of where this process is heading, as the leadership provided there by the LaRouche Youth Movement's (LYM) campaign of Summer Shields for Congress shows the potential for delivering a decisive blow to those who insist that there is no alternative to "globalization." Prominent among the thousands of demonstrators were members of Shields' campaign, with banners calling for the impeachment of Obama, and the famous photo of Obama, with a Hitler-style mustache.

Though the Shields campaign activists were not the only ones carrying signs calling for Obama's impeachment, they were interviewed by local television reporters, and drew a response from the President himself. In his remarks to supporters, Obama tried to joke about his unpopularity, but came across as defensive, when he acknowledged that it has been a tough year for him, adding that there are even posters of him with a Hitler mustache!

With the President's popularity ratings plummeting, and those of incumbent Congressmen collapsing to Cheneyesque levels, the mass strike can no longer be ignored, or dismissed.

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