-> SNETNEWS Mailing List The following article is from New Dawn No. 53 (March-April 1999) http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au * * * * * * * * * * * * The Last President: An Essay About William Jefferson Clinton By ALEXANDER DUGIN The Enigma of William Clinton Clinton is the last US president of this millennium. In a way he is the last chord of a cadence — he is the president of the Fukuyamian "end of history". His psychological, political and ideological image are in their own way marks of the postmodern. He is one of the greatest successes the West has had on its road to total world domination. However, the objective meaning of this emblematic figure is radically different from his overall image. He is not at all like a cultural hero, "the great winner". Here we must look for the enigma of William Clinton, because there is such an enigma. His banality, unclarity and pseudo-lighthearted predictability do carry a deeper meaning. Clinton became the US president when the country that had originally presented the very essence of "post-history" was ready to unveil its civilised dictatorship to the rest of mankind. Today’s planet earth is a US colony of sorts, and in this context William Clinton has become the "lord of this world". >From the ideological point of view, Clinton has three separate elements in him, all united in one big whole in order to make him the president in such an important moment for the United States and the whole Western world. Let us examine these elements. An Untypical Democrat William Clinton was elected from the Democratic party. In the two-party system of the United States, Democrats are usually considered on "the left". They are different from the right with their social demands; demands to raise taxes from the wealthier parts of the population, and to lower taxes on the poor; support for the demands of various minorities (sexual, racial, religious); pacifism; orientation towards lowering military funding; priorities of "basic human values" over American interests; sympathy for the moderate forms of social-democracy; the ideology of "human rights"; support for multi-national organisations (like the UN); the search for a "rightist conspiracy" behind every crisis; easy and smiley behaviour; the resulting "globalism", ie. striving in some perspective for the creation of One World, a world without nations, states, peoples, and borders. By inverting these theses we get the classical Republican rhetoric: demands for cutting social expenses; readiness to lower taxes on the wealthy classes, so that every class would be equal in terms of taxing; priority of the norms of the moral majority over the "perverted"; militarism; demands for military funding; readiness to support American interests over all the rest; anti-socialism and anti-communism; free enterprise; criticism towards multi-national organisations (UN included); search for a "leftist conspiracy" behind every crisis; worried and near-ascetic behaviour; the basic ideology of American domination over the entire world rather than the "One World" ideal. However, the Democrat Clinton doesn’t sport all the basic characters. For various reasons, his comrades have many times blamed him for being "too rightist", ie. too much like Republican politicians. The ideological secret of Clinton is that in him we can spot the very elements of "right" and "left" that are typical of our age. Clinton represents the ideal figure of a liberal a liberal, not a democrat or a liberal-democrat. The point is that liberalism is the exclusive ideological model that has become the highest norm of political correctness at the end of the 20th century, when all the other ideological models have fallen apart. These were once the models that opposed the aforementioned tendency, and thus gave birth to the restructuralisation of the political arena. Liberalism as such is an ideology, whose economic part is based on "rightist" ideologies ("market economy", "Republicanism"), and political part on "leftist" ("democracy", "Libertarianism"). The common denominator of such a synthesis is an international strategy, best characterised by the word "Atlantism", ie. striving to gain strategic control over the whole planet for the West, using NATO members. However, it makes no difference, what we call this Altlantism — it could be "globalism" (infiltration of universal, individualist values of "the American way" to all peoples in order to create a "unified humanity" from the smallest possible particles) or just "Americanism" (forcing other countries under the strategic interests of the United States); both variants of Atlantism differ in nuances and methods only, but serve the very same purpose total Western domination. William Clinton is democratic in those spheres that are not concerned with economics or foreign policy. He smiles a lot, he is soft, tolerant, sympathises with minorities and feminism, portrays a social orientation (to raise the level of medical services), likes to speak about "human rights". By doing so, he is very much like the classical stereotype of a democrat, trying to beat even Kennedy. Meanwhile, Clinton is very close to the political right whenever there is a question about taxing, free enterprise, and especially keeping on with the herd American way in international affairs, where the United States has during the Clinton era acted out cruel, aggressive strategies of "rightist" Atlantism (eg. Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan). According to the testimony of friends, Clinton is worried about how he will look in the sequence of US presidents. From the ideological point of view, he is the "ideal" president, "the last president" in the same sense as Nietzsche spoke about "the last people". The Sexual Conspiracy Clinton’s whole political history has been accompanied by sexual scandals. Psychoanalysis of Clinton’s sex life is one of the favourite themes of American psychologists and publicists. We know no less of his intimate life, sexual preferences and perversions than we know about the deviances of the exhibitionist Madonna. One would think that a pragmatic politician who is on the top of political power in the first country of the world could control his appetite or at least take care of hiding the secrets. Clinton’s psychological portrait doesn’t lead us to think that we are dealing with a weak-minded good-for-nothing who cannot control his own deeds. There must be some other mechanisms or reasons behind all this. The psychoanalyst Paul Lovinger has presented the following version: William Clinton and his wife Hillary ("Billy and Hilly") represent the contemporary analogue of the divine couple, a remake of sorts of the ancient mythological "god" and "goddess". This is exactly how the infantile collective American audience raised on cartoons, Hollywood fantasies and horror, see them. Hillary is the Great Mother of America. She is concerned over the poor, and both active women and passive men count on her. Her public function corresponds to the ancient Greek goddess Hera. Bill Clinton himself is the incarnation of the playful Zeus, surrounded by nymphs and the staff of the White House. His escapades have a psychological as well as mythological meaning. He is proof of the proliferate power and universal attractiveness of the American male. The fact that Hillary, being constantly cheated on by her husband, is always ready to stand for this in front of enemies, illustrates the fact that we are not dealing with spontaneous human emotions, but a carefully planned psychodrama played on the scene of a global theatre. (For further information, please see Paul Lovinger: "Bill Clinton meets the Shrinks", 1998) There is also another, rather paradoxical version of the secret backgrounds behind the sexual scandals concerning the first couple of the planet. It is based on the idea that Clinton, standing for "rightist" ("Republican") ideas, constantly plays around rather carelessly in order to hide the fact that his policy lacks all really Democratic steps. Hillary Clinton once came up with a version that all the scandals (be they real or supposed adulteries) have been constructed by the "rightists". On the other hand, these very same "rightists" continued to blame Clinton for being a "Nazi", since he believes in a conspiracy theory, which is rather close to, well, you know what... Game Over William Clinton is not a subject to criticise. He presents in himself, in his acts and words, the objective picture of how things are. He is the mirror of history, a humble and adequate actor playing his part, so that we cannot alter even a single intonation of his speech, not to mention the actual words. He has been blamed for not making any decisions, but no decisions are possible after the end of history. Some people claim that he hasn’t changed a single thing in American history, but it is impossible to change anything in this life. The last president, the fair-haired Baptist, the globalist "lord of this world", with complete power over the entire planet, is ncapable of completing anything. His protruding eyes bring to mind the physiognomy of Volodin from Sologub’s "A Petty Devil", powerlessly and unhappily testifying: "That was all. Were you expecting something more? Oh, c’mon, be realistic... That was definitely all." Game over. Translated from Russian by Henry Zalkin. Alexander Dugin is Russia's leading non-conformist writer, philosopher and political activist. He specialises in geopolitics and metaphysics and edits Elemente, a Russian magazine of alternative thought. He is the president of the Russian historical-religious association Arctogaia. 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