Barack Obama’s loyalty to his capitalist paymasters on the “bailout for billionaires” and his call for wider war in Afghanistan/Pakistan reveal his true colors.

 But by far the most dangerous aspect of this election is Obama’s bringing to the White House the biggest, best organized, fastest-acting grass-roots army in the history of presidential campaigning. In a text message sent out minutes before his election-night acceptance speech, Obama told followers, “We have a lot to do to get our country back on track and I’ll be in touch about what comes next.”

The new president’s minions include 3.1 million Internet-linked donors and volunteers. The most active of the volunteers include the million registered on mybarackobama.com, a social network that the campaign established to communicate needs, events and assignments to volunteers.  Participation and fund-raising totals were calculated and there’s a numeric score for each volunteer’s success.

This volunteer network will be asked to exert pressure on Congressmen who oppose Obama’s legislation, among other tasks. This mass support for concentrated power in the hands of the president, if it takes hold, will make Bush’s fascist executive power grab look inept and tame. We will “love our dictator.”

The campaign maintained extensive and precise digital records, allowing the new president a zip-code by zip-code map of “loyal soldiers.” No matter their individual intentions, they will be used to build a base for a program of more war and more fascism.

No doubt thousands of Obama-ites think they’ll push the president in a more “progressive” direction. We must be among those masses to offer them an alternative. We must go to the January 20th inauguration in D.C. with CHALLENGE. We must step up the fight against racist unemployment, police terror, foreclosures, imperialist war, cutbacks, and bring workers, soldiers and students our communist politics. This is the only way to turn the dangerous illusions many people have in Obama into opportunities to build a communist alternative.