Karl Rove wrote an article under the title: “Romney Shrinks
the Campaign Money Gap” and the subtitle: “Obama ads won't dominate the
airwaves like they did in 2008.” It was published in the Wall Street Journal on
June 21, 2012. In it, he tells the world how democracy is made to work in
American these days. Don't laugh, my friend, or take the man lightly because he
knows what he is talking about; credited as he is for being instrumental in
getting George W. Bush elected twice.
To show what he will do to get Mitt Romney elected this
time, he describes how Obama did it in 2008 then argues that he has a better
strategy for Romney. This is what he says: “...in 2008, Mr. Obama won partly
because he outspent Sen. John McCain by $325 million.” He lets you know this is
a war: “Use the … cash to frame the election after an … exhausted Mr. Romney's
war chest.” He reiterates with this: “...the president needs to buy his way to
re-election,” and this: “financial muscle made it possible to spread out the
battlefield and make a (successful) play for more states." And he foretells
victory: “Mr. Romney is successfully marshaling resources so his fall campaign
[will be] competitive in every battleground state.”
And so you ask: What does that do to the principle of
democracy? A good question that requires a long answer. Here is that answer.
What distinguishes us, human beings from the rest of
creation is that we can do things above and beyond what the instinct dictates.
We can think in the abstract and act accordingly even if the thought
contradicts the nudging of the instinct. The consequence of having this ability
is that we can no longer live in a group we call society without expanding on
the rules that govern our relationship with the group as a whole and the
various relationships we develop with each individual we encounter inside the
group. And so we make the rules that go beyond the dictates of the instinct,
and we bundle them into a body of laws we call the social contract.
From an early beginning when the contract was no more than
the expression of the accepted social norms, we developed more complex
interactions by learning new skills and pursuing new activities -- all of which
were transmitted down the line from one generation to the next. This expansion
in our activities necessitated the addition of new rules to the social contract
which kept expanding till it became too cumbersome to handle. The management of
the social contract becoming a complicated chore, it required a dose of
rationalization. To do this, we relied once again on our ability to think in
the abstract, and have devised a limited number of commandments against which
the validity of every rule is tested before inclusion into the body of laws.
By the time society had advanced so much that people were
compelled to invent the written form of communication and they began to
practice it, the commandments had become a Constitution against which the
validity of every bill proposed for legislation was tested before enactment.
From this moment forward, everything was judged in accordance with the law, a
development that reduced the authority of the rulers. In time, the rule of law
became so dominant that the rulers themselves were forced to submit to it
because they were forbidden from rising above it.
And so, what we have now is a world that is made of
something like 200 territories called countries or some other designation --
themselves made of autonomous or semi-autonomous provinces, states or republics
-- themselves made of regions or municipalities – all of which are governed by
constitutions, laws, by-laws and rules. Ordinary people are expected to obey
the laws and the rules of the jurisdiction in which they live whether or not
they are aware of them; and punished when caught breaking them. Unless a
chaotic situation develops such as a riot, for example – something that can
happen from time to time in any jurisdiction -- the administration of the law
at this level is never a big problem. What can develop into a big problem,
however, are the ambitions of people who go outside the norm and seek to carry
out extraordinary feats. This prompts the following set of questions: Can
someone be so ambitious as to want to establish dominion over a jurisdiction
and rule by authoritarian decrees? If yes, how is it done?
Before we answer the first question, we must distinguish
between what is despotic rule -- also known as dictatorship, and what is
paternalistic rule -- also known as benevolent authoritarianism. The first kind
has been eradicated from this planet almost completely whereas the second is
still practiced in a few places. However, as these places industrialize,
ordinary people tend to become more materialistic. When this tendency reaches a
high enough level, the mystique of a ruler having inherited a supernatural sort
of authority fades, and the masses of people begin to reject his rule. They
clamor for democracy, a word that has acquired so many definitions; you can
make it represent anything you want.
Understanding the nature of this confusion will help us
answer the question posed earlier: how does it happen that someone can still
manage to establish an authoritarian form of rule in a jurisdiction? The answer
is that the confusion about the meaning of democracy allows for someone to
pretend he is practicing democracy when in fact; he would be administering an
authoritarian form of rule. Most of the time, however, an individual such as
that would do what he does in his own country among his people. And most of the
time, he would reach a high point where he is dethroned -- sometimes violently
-- and replaced by a more palatable form of government.
But there is a phenomenon that started on Planet Earth
thousands of years ago. It is sustained by individuals who do the sort of
things that people prefer to ignore till they explode in everyone's face and
the people then exclaim: how could we not have seen it come!? The individuals
in question call themselves Jews even though they come from every race and
every religion whereas the original Jews were a nomadic ethnic group that lived
in the Middle East thousands of years ago in 12 tribes, 10 of which disappeared
several thousand years ago and the remaining 2 tribes disappeared by dilution
during the course of the last 3,000 years.
The authentic Jews mistakenly believed that they were chosen
by God to rule the world, and they created an epic fantasy called Old Testament
which is a book of horror, violence, blood, guts and apocalyptic misery of
biblical dimensions. It was their blueprint and their road map meant to show
their disciples how to go about taking over the World. Despite the fact that
time after time, ordinary human beings have had it up to here with this kind of
behavior, and have pogrommed and holocausted the disciples, new recruits kept
coming into the fold lured by the promise that someday, they will occupy a
prominent place on the throne from where the world will be ruled.
But they alone never had the numbers to conquer the world by
force of arms, and so they devised all sorts of tricks by which to infiltrated
the superpower of the day and use its armed forces to go after someone else. By
force of habit, they attribute to themselves every success that is scored, and
attribute every failure to the sucker that follows their instructions. What
they do at this time is try to maintain America -- the current superpower –
on its feet to finish a job they started a number of decades ago. The trouble
is that what they have started got so out of hand, they quake in their boots at
the sight of their own shadow knowing that they have depleted America so badly; it is no longer
able to protect them as they try to fulfill their fantasies.
The doomed project had its genesis when the State of Israel
was established as a Jewish cooperative built according to instructions given
by Karl Marx, the Jewish inventor of Communism. Israel as a project was blessed and
supported by the well known humanitarian, Joseph Stalin, whose taste for
terrorism was so legendary, the Jewish leaders affectionately called him Uncle
Joe. By the time he and all those like him had disappeared from the Soviet
scene, America
the Capitalist had become the acknowledged superpower of the day. To respond to
the new reality, the Jewish leaders did something in a typically communistic
fashion -- they erased memories of Israel as the entity which stood on
the two legs: communism and terrorism.
In consequence of this, America 's
nincompoops are now obligated to see that Israel
looks very much like America
which has the duty to replace Stalin as the primary bankroller of Israel 's
terrorist activities in the region; activities called self-defense not
terrorism. And when Israel
fails to defend itself after poking a neighbor in the ribs, America must
rush and come to self-defend it. What? What's self-defend it? No, no, don't ask
me how this works; it is Jewish logic that I have not parsed as yet. Maybe some
other day.
As to the practice of Jewish democracy in America , this
is how it works. Parallel to the Constitution that was put together by the
founding fathers; you create another Constitution which you may now say is put
together by the Jewish founding fathers. That is, they use every trick in the
book to make laws and pass them in the middle of the night not only to do
specific things, but laws that tie the hands of future congresses from acting
in a way they will deem necessary for the benefit of America . A notorious trick of this
kind has been the making of a list calling a terrorist everyone that the
Israelis do not like, then passing a law that says no American is allowed to
even talk to someone on that list.
And so you ask: How is it that someone can pass this kind of
law in America ,
the mother of democracies with the greatest constitution ever devised on this
planet? You buy the elections says Karl Rove, that moral twin of the other
Karl.
This is where America stands today. Weep all of
you lovers of freedom.