26 juillet 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab[D]uring the Obama era, American conservatism already fiercely ideological and obstructionist, operating according to sets of \u00ab\u00a0facts\u00a0\u00bb produced and paid for by oil companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and other corporate interests has contrived to go completely barmy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn most countries, you have two major political parties or broad factions. They disagree on many things. But both begin by accepting certain suppositions. I would imagine that in Britain, for instance, both Labour and the Tories think healthcare for all or at least most people is a good idea. They have different notions about how to do it, but the goal is agreed upon. I gather also that the Tories accept the basic idea that global warming exists and that man’s actions have contributed to it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbBut American conservatism does not believe healthcare for all or most is a desired outcome at all. Conservatives believe people are responsible for their own healthcare, and that people who don’t have it just aren’t showing enough pluck and initiative. Last Thursday, one Republican congressman announced that the party wouldn’t even offer its own version of healthcare legislation and this man runs the party’s so-called Solutions Group! And on climate change, of course, most deny its existence, and all deny that human activity has played any role in it whatsoever.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbI could give you 50 examples, but you get the idea. We have a party that lives in an alternate universe. Wondering why Obama and the Democrats are having trouble lately? They’ve committed their errors, and the party’s genuine ideological diversity can make consensus hard to come by. But the big issue is this. The alternate-universe party represents the views of about 27% of the people, as nearly as I can tell. More will label themselves conservative in polls, but when you analyse the percentage of Americans who endorse the extreme views the GOP represents on a range of matters, it comes to a little more than quarter of the population. But the Republicans hold about 42% of the power in Washington, with the ability in Senate, according to that body’s rules, to block almost anything, almost any time.<\/em> []<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abHealthcare is socialism. Saving the auto industry is liberal fascism. Trying to halt global warming is both. Negotiating with Iran I didn’t even get to foreign policy is proof that Obama wants to obliterate the US. And to top it all off, the Great Obliterator isn’t even a citizen. Obama has to try to conduct the business of state with people who believe or lend cover to all these notions. Trust me. Be glad you have your Tories.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tBien s\u00fbr, il s’agit des r\u00e9publicains, mais nous tendrions \u00e0 ne pas concentrer la responsabilit\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale sur un parti, sur une tendance. Tout le monde est complice dans la paralysie actuelle, chacun jouant son r\u00f4le dans la partition, les d\u00e9mocrates c\u00e9dant, selon les circonstances, aux emportements hyst\u00e9riques et enfi\u00e9vr\u00e9s des autres, comme ils l’ont fait pendant huit ans avec Bush, avec le plus grand z\u00e8le. Durant cette pr\u00e9sidence, leur comportement fut souvent celui de la schizophr\u00e9nie puisqu’ils soutenaient, souvent avec enthousiasme et ferveur, un gouvernement et une politique absolument rejet\u00e9s par leur base \u00e9lectorale et contraires aux principes th\u00e9oriques qu’ils affichent parfois en campagne \u00e9lectorale et qu’ils proclament lors des conventions nationales.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tLes r\u00e9publicains appuient leur obstructionnisme qui nourrit leurs phantasmes sur une parcellisation du pouvoir, impliquant la multiplication des centres de pouvoir et la perte du sens d’un int\u00e9r\u00eat collectif. Cette parcellisation du pouvoir correspond \u00e9galement \u00e0 une parcellisation sociale, sous forme de la communautarisation, o\u00f9 les d\u00e9mocrates portent la plus large part de responsabilit\u00e9s. Cette communautarisation est \u00e9galement un puissant ferment de parcellisation du pouvoir, qui compl\u00e8te, d’un point de vue social et culturel, celui que favorisent les r\u00e9publicains, souvent selon une approche \u00e9conomique et financi\u00e8re. Tout cela se traduit par la pertes des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences de raison et de bon sens dans l’appr\u00e9ciation des grandes questions d\u00e9battues.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tLe mal est g\u00e9n\u00e9ral et correspond \u00e0 l’\u00e9tat du syst\u00e8me en phase terminale, lorsque l’absence d’autorit\u00e9 et de l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 r\u00e9galiennes conduit effectivement \u00e0 cette perte de sens collectif. Ce qui est remarquable, aujourd’hui, c’est que ce mal touche la psychologie collective jusqu’\u00e0 faire ressembler celle-ci \u00e0 une pathologie. Le jugement de Maher est particuli\u00e8rement pertinent, pour caract\u00e9riser le situation actuelle, notamment avec la pr\u00e9sence de l’h\u00f4pital psychiatrique. Cela n’emp\u00eache donc nullement les d\u00e9mocrates eux-m\u00eames de ne plus \u00eatre si \u00e9loign\u00e9s de l’h\u00f4pital psychiatrique; ils y sont presque lorsqu’ils font avec Wall Street ce qu’ils ont fait, c’est-\u00e0-dire une sortie de crise qui pr\u00e9pare id\u00e9alement une crise encore plus grave; ils pourraient y venir de fa\u00e7on encore plus d\u00e9cisive si leur champion, le pr\u00e9sident BHO, s’enfon\u00e7ait comme il commence \u00e0 le faire dans une situation de blocage exacerbant la situation politique, victime de l’obstructionnisme, et obstructionniste lui-m\u00eame par une politique mettant elle-m\u00eame en place les cha\u00eenes dont elle devient la prisonni\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 28 juillet 2009 \u00e0 09H05<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
R\u00e9p\u00e9tons cette phrase de l’humoriste Bill Maher, qui d\u00e9crit ainsi l’\u00e9volution de la situation politique aux USA apr\u00e8s l’\u00e9lection d’Obama: Les d\u00e9mocrates sont pass\u00e9s \u00e0 droite et la droite est pass\u00e9e dans un h\u00f4pital psychiatrique. (\u00abAs comedian Bill Maher recently put it, The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8510,6208,8509,4280,3099,5310],"class_list":["post-70944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-maher","tag-obama","tag-obstructionnisme","tag-pathologie","tag-psychologie","tag-republicains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}