The Obama Presidency
During the 2008 elections, Dix argued against those who saw Obama’s candidacy as a vehicle to advance a progressive agenda. Dix popularized the analysis of Bob Avakian—that Obama was a “trump card” being played by those who rule the US in order to bring disaffected forces back into support for the system. Dix wrote that "promoting Obama's campaign can only lead people back into the killing embrace of this rotten system."
Further amplifying on this position, beginning in 2009, Dix engaged in a series of public dialogues with Princeton professor and public intellectual, Cornel West, under the theme of “In the Age of Obama - Police Terror; Incarceration; No Jobs; Mis-Education - WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH?"
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“I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)