Since the beginning of time, people (mostly men) have seized
power in the society to which they belong, have ruled it, and have proven
themselves to be benevolent rulers that did good things for their society, or
turned out to be evil rulers that did bad things to the society; even crossed
the border and went on to do bad things to the neighboring societies.
It boggles the mind when you think about it – think about
how someone can rise from a modest beginning, seize the reins of power in a
society, and get to the position where he can command absolute power without
someone around him noticing what he is up to, and stopping him before he goes
too far, and pulls the whole society down the precipice with him.
Most of the time you find that such individual had joined an
existing set-up and planned early on to take it over. To get there, he would
work himself into a position of adviser to the person that is currently at the
top of the heap. Secure in that position, he learns all about running the
operation while at the same time forging a close relationship with the people
at a lower level of command; people he dreams will become his sycophants the
day that he seizes the power at the top.
This is how the scenarios used to unfold in the fiefdoms of
a bygone era when palace coups were the norm, and everyone watched their back
not knowing how, when or by whom a dagger will be planted into it. Things have
changed since that time whereby the form by which the power is seized in the
modern era has taken a different path. This is not to say that the substance of
human ambition has changed over time. What happens now is that the ambitious
who have a personal agenda seek to have it implemented not by seizing the power
themselves but by grooming someone they help get to the top where he will
remain their sycophant, and implement the agenda for them.
The system we now call democracy is well suited for that
kind of scenario to unfold. The individual who runs for the top job needs to have
around him a big organization and a large number of people who will do such
chores as knock at the doors of the constituents, man the telephone banks,
communicate through the social media, and most of all raise the millions of
dollars that will be needed to pay the campaign professionals, and pay for the
other expenses, most of which being advertising in the audio-visual and printed
media.
Campaign professionals who have expertise in one field or
another are helpful to a campaign, and this is why the man running for office
pays them to advise him. This gives them a certain amount of influence which
they may or may not be able to use to advance a personal agenda. Most of the
time, it will be the man with ambition, an agenda and especially gobs of money that
will command the attention of the one running for office. He will have the most
influence on him, and have a set of issues for him to articulate during the
campaign. He will also have designs with regard to a personal agenda he wishes
to see implemented after the win if they win the election.
Who would be the advisers or the man with gobs of money that
determine how a campaign is run or what the nation will ultimately do as a
result of their influence? Well, we have the example of the group of men that call
themselves children of the Holocaust survivors who inflicted holocaust on
millions of people in the Middle East, and thousands of families in America under
the reign of George W. Bush. It is that the W – as he came to be called – won
the election, and so they were able to implement their once hidden personal
agendas.
As to the man with gobs of money that did not manage to have
his agenda implemented; he would be Sheldon Adelson who backed Mitt Romney when
the latter was running to be president of the United States during the 2011
campaign. You could already tell what Adelson was up to when he convinced the
manifestly inferior character that is Romney to go to Israel and
receive a million dollars for making the admittedly false observation that the
Palestinians are a race of people inferior to the Jews, not matter what race
the latter came from before converting to Judaism.
But that was not the hidden agenda. If you want to know what
was, read the Andrew Rosenthal article in the October 23, 2013 edition of the
New York Times. It came under the title “No Comment Necessary: Fight Nukes With
Nukes” and has an accompanying video clip that will raise your hair. You will
find that this man Adelson is truly a madman who will do to the world as much
damage as any horrible dictator, if he ever manages to seize the reins of power
in a powerful country. Thank the heavens that Romney lost the election.