Sir,

I am writing to thank your for the insightful analysis on the US Presidential elections where Obama has won overwhelmingly under the slogan of "change"..

The US today stands at a major crisis point. Jobless figures are at record highs. Its international standing is in tatters. Nationally, it has carried out atrocities against its own citizens through the passage of draconian laws, with arbitrary incarceration. Several celebrated cases such as that of Jose Padilla, the Lacawanna Seven, Lt. Ehren Watada, and atrocities as Camp X-Ray with the arbitrary incarceration of hundreds who find themselves in a legal no man's land is the American reality. 

While experts have opined that George Bush was carrying out extra-constitutional activities, a closer examination will show that his usurpation of power is permitted by the US constitution. Internationally the USA is seen as a bully that tears asunder all treaties and laws. The fact that Obama speaks of change with no reference to such matters of pressing importance suggests that there will really be no change, but a continuation of the same under a different guise.

Obama has been elected at a time when the contradictions between the financial oligarchs and manufacturing giants has come increasingly in conflict with the objective conditions generated by the economic system they run. In real terms the earning capacity of the working class has fallen, while the thirst for unmitigated profits of the financial oligarchy increases all the time. The US constitution has its origins in safeguarding the supreme interests of private property and the state machinery that is in place today has perfected this mission. The inexorable contradiction between the robbery of social wealth by a privileged few and the masses is the foundation of the present crisis.  The election of Obama will do nothing to mitigate this crisis, but will rather lead to the further discrediting of the entire political process. In this atmosphere, fascism will seek to strengthen itself and will try to crush its opponents and seek to strike abroad in wars of aggression and accumulation. A discussion must begin on how to get the world out of the edge of this precipice.