In honor of Mitt Romney's nomination victory this week, we reprise below our last look
at the man who might very well be the next temporary manager of the
domination-and-despoliation machine belching mephitically on the banks
of the Potomac.
In this earlier glimpse, we saw in Romney the
quintessence of the bipartisan ruling elite -- and an avatar of the
rabid psychopathology that lurks always behind the bland facade of
normality our masters try so frantically to project. Time has proved the
observations below to apply equally to both wings of the big bloated
chickenhawk of our ruling class, of course, although in this particular
piece more attention is given to the right wing of the necrotic
creature.
But it is interesting to note how so many of positions
Romney staked out in this four-year old speech were promulgated by the
man who eventually won the White House that year. Although Obama doesn't
play so overtly on the Muslim-phobia that Romney exhibits with such
naked frenzy here, in one respect he has gone much further than Romney
and his fellow sexual panickers. Obama doesn't waste his breath
blathering about Muslim birthrates and what all: he goes straight to the
source and kills Muslims directly -- indeed, making a special target of
those Muslim males most likely to breed, as his minions revealed so
gleefully in the New York Times this week. He has also followed
Romney's adjuration to continue the Terror War and keep gorging the
military-industrial complex with war pork. Romney even anticipates
Obama's "pivot the China" and the resurrection of the Yellow Peril trope
so beloved by American imperialists from days of yore. And they say
bipartisanship is dead.
American Psycho: An Elite Exposed in an Exit Speech
February 8, 2008
If you would like to see just how sick the American elite really is -- how morally depraved, how intellectually diseased, how addicted to the taste of human flesh, the scent of human blood, and the sight of human suffering -- then you need go no further than the speech given by Mitt Romney to the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 7, 2008.
Now you might say that Mitt Romney is old news. After all, this was the very speech where he declared he was quitting the presidential race. He's toast, he's over, the fork has been stuck into his well-roasted hide; who cares what he says? This is of course the witless "horse-race" view that dominates political discourse in America: who's up, who's down, who's getting the column inches, who's on TV? But in reality, the American elite -- or the Establishment, or the power structure, call it what you will (as long as you don't call it what it really is: the ruling class) -- is like an iceberg: most of its vast bulk exists unseen, it plows on beneath the surface, unperturbed by the media storms that rage around the small bit of exposed material at the summit.
Mitt Romney is an immensely wealthy, well-connected man, a former governor of the state of Massachusetts, born and bred in an extensive web of privilege and power. His defeat in a presidential campaign changes none of that. He will simply submerge -- for a time -- back into those depths where the real business of the elite is largely done. Thus his words to the conservative activists remain a highly relevant indication of the mindset that holds sway over the world's most powerful nation. They show the barbarism, hate-mongering and bloodlust that are considered perfectly acceptable in the polite company of our rulers and their sycophants.
Indeed, the most remarkable thing about Romney's speech is that there is nothing remarkable about it; it is entirely typical of the kind of red meat that many leading lights of American society routinely throw to the slavering rightwing faithful. It takes a strong effort to wrench your mind free from the media-besotted mentality that regards such a speech as "normal" (even if you disagree with it), and see it for the debased, bestial raving that it really is.
The smoldering core of Romney's vomitous offering can perhaps be found in his passing remarks on Europe. Again, in one sense, this was just a crowd-pleasing throwaway: a good Eurobash always gets the CPAC froth flowing. But in a deeper sense, it cuts right to the corroded heart of the matter, right down to the vicious, primitive, genocidal racism that has shaped and driven so many of the policies of Western elites for centuries. In the midst of a long diatribe about liberal "attacks" on "American culture," Romney pauses for a glance across the Atlantic, to evoke a hideous nightmare that could soon be America's future:
"Europe -- Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That's the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life, and eroded morality."
By "demographic disaster," Romney simply means that there are more
non-white people in Europe than there used to be. To Romney and his
fellow elites, this fact in itself constitutes a genuine "disaster."
Although the population of Europe is still overwhelmingly white (much
more so than the population of the United States), even the smallest
dilution of racial purity across the continent is to be lamented,
decried -- and rolled back. Here of course Romney is channeling
fearmongers like Martin Amis, Mark Steyn,
and Christopher Hitchens, whose trembly sexual panic in the face of
hot-blooded, fast-breeding darkies would be comical, if it were not so
sinister -- and so useful to the warmakers and global dominationists in
the ruling elite.
Romney makes the sexual and racial subtext
abundantly clear in his remarks about Europe's loss of religious faith,
eroded morality, etc. The Euros are plainly too busy having abortions
and watching porn to do their duty by the race and breed bigger families
kept under strict religious discipline. And thus the shabby denizens of
an alien faith are breeding like rats in the cellarage of Western
Civilization, gnawing away at the foundations and conquering it from
within. The fact that "Muslims" are substituted for "Jews" in these
formulations and implications of Hitchens, Amis, Romney, et al, does not
lessen the precision with which their diatribes mirror those that
saturated Germany (and many other nations) in the first four decades of
the 20th century. For the elites, there is always a dark, sexually
potent "other" out there, whose overwhelming threat to white supremacy
can only be overcome by...giving the elites more and more power.
Oddly
enough, there has been a demographic disaster in Europe -- but it has
nothing to do with virile Muslim men and their fertile females. It is
never mentioned by Romney and his elitist ilk -- because it is the
result of their own philosophy, their own policies, and their own
desires. We speak of course of the demographic collapse in Russia, where
the population is dwindling while death rates remain almost twice as
high as in the United States and Western Europe. The Russian people are
still reeling from the catastrophic "shock therapy" inflicted on them by
Boris Yeltsin's "Chicago School" market fundamentalists. (The harrowing
story is well-told in Naomi Klein's study of "disaster capitalism," The Shock Doctrine.)
The
Western elites were very glad to watch the Russian people sink to their
knees, die off in droves and suffer in poverty, chaos and fear -- as
long as a juicy slice of Russia's oil, mineral and industrial wealth was
in the offing. The West's sudden distaste for Kremlin strongman
Vladimir Putin has nothing to do with his egregious crackdowns on civil
freedoms. Putin's depredations are hardly less egregious than those of
Yeltin, who actually sent in troops and tanks to destroy the
democratically elected parliament 1993, then ran roughshod over every
vestige of law in harnessing the entire power of the state -- and the
private sector as well -- to ensure a victory in his re-election bid in
1996. After that, he laid open the entire economy to the rapacious
looting of his corporate cronies and their Western allies. It is the
fact that Putin has taken much of this loot off the table for Westerners
-- and given it to his own cronies -- that has provoked the West's
new-found concern for the rights and well-being of the Russian people.
In
his swan song, Romney makes it clear that he and his elites want to
continue pressing their "shock therapy" on the American people as well,
rolling back the very mild attempts in the past to ameliorate, slightly,
some of the worst excesses and inequities of unhinged corporate greed.
In fact, Romney identifies these tepid measures as dire threats to
"American culture" itself:
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