Thank God for sanity and humanity wherever you can find it !

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Writers here at the World Socialist Web Site who speak truth both to power and to the masses deserve all the encouragement and support they can get.

There was a truly inspired essay written back in 2011 by one Drew Westen :" What happened to Obama ? " . How quickly Westen was disillusioned by Obama ( It looks like Obama-ism is presently seen as the way to go for the corrupt leadership of the Labor Party in Great Britain ) .

In this essay Drew Westen takes the reader ( no doubt equally disillusioned ) back to the early days of the Obama presidency : " The economy was spinning in reverse. Three quarters of a million people lost their jobs that month . Many had lost their homes, and with them the only nest eggs they had... Hope was as scarce as credit".

The American people, the writer said , needed an explanation, needed a " STORY " , that " made sense of what they had just been through " They needed to know WHO was " responsible for their pain and suffering. Could Obama " restore order and safety " ?

Obama, Drew Westen writes , only " saved " the few , saved American capitalism, saved the banking system.

" But there was no story-and there has been none since ".

Except here at the World Socialist Web Site. There IS the Marxist explanation for the crises of capitalism, for the hideous economic system in its long death agony. Thank God for sanity and humanity -wherever you can find it .

  [ Drew Westen: “What Happened to Obama?”

Elias Isquith / August 7, 2011 in The League

I’ve always been a big fan of Dr. Drew Westen’s work — in fact, it baffles me that his fundamental message, to tell a story, and tell it with emotion, is news enough to so many on the left that he can make a nice secondary career repeating and honing it — but I think his latest essay in the New York Times, “What Happened to Obama?” may be the best work of his non-academic career.]