The announced election of Barack Obama will be interpreted as a restoration of American democracy, says Emmanuel Todd, but will it be enough to operate the breaks expected? The historian and demographer, writing in 2002 work After the Empire: An Essay on the decomposition of American system, does not hide his perplexity. Although warmly welcomed the arrival of a black president to the White House fears, said that the event is not part of a "process of disintegration."
Six years ago you described a country become "an element of international disorder", is the election of Barack Obama can change this?
At first this election will give the impression that the United States began flourishing again. With Bush we have had the worst presidents, Rantamplan a kind of warmongering that his awkwardness increases destruction of the American empire. Obama comes back with the image of a dynamic and optimistic country. A civilized country with a more reasonable foreign policy, seeking to withdraw from Iraq, who will not declare war on Iran. A country, however, could also remain as the previous anti-Russian, Democrats see Russia as the only genuine U.S. strategic adversary.
In the current climate of collapse, financial and moral failure, and given the awesome responsibility of the U.S. in the global turmoil, Obama's victory allow pro-US Western countries say the United States is again wonderful. This victory granted some years of extra life to the rule.
two events occur in the United States truly remarkable. The implosion of the financial system and economic myth on one side and the implosion of the racist structure elsewhere. Under these conditions, it is understood that Americans are in some state of levitation. But while the collapse of racist sentiment is obviously good news, racism will be gone really the day that voters do not expect anything in particular to a president that is black. Obama is an American politician. His speech is full of the usual references to religious values. It is surrounded by figures from the Democratic establishment, the same Democrats who, even in greater numbers than Republicans, voted subsidies to the banking system. Continued ...
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