Saturday, February 21, 2015

On Love and the Desire for Perfection

Try to answer the two questions that follow, then read Kevin D. Williamson's article of February 20, 2015 in National Review Online. It came under the title: “Rudy is Right” and the subtitle: “Barack Obama doesn't even like America.” And here are the two questions: Can a father continue to love a son that shamed him by raping the little girl next door? Can a daughter love a mother that continually embarrasses her in public where she is never seen in a state of sobriety?

The point is that love manifests itself in many ways; one of which being “tough love,” which means disapproving of someone's conduct so vehemently as to hurt them now in the hope of saving them from something worse. With this in mind, you deduce that Williamson's article is not worth considering as a legitimate contribution to the conversation on the subject. And this may answer his own question: “Those are questions that we are not allowed to ask in polite society. Why?” He answered it: “Because polite society does not want to hear the answers.” But the fact is that a good debate on the subject would interest everyone regardless as to the conclusions that may be reached by the various debaters.

So then, we repeat the question that Williamson kept asking on behalf of Rudy Giuliani: “Does Barack Obama love America?” To respond, we recall that if you ask any politician why they run for office, the answer invariably comes back to the effect that they love the country so much, it hurts them to see it kept below potential by the management style of those they seek to replace in office. This is what candidate Barack Obama was saying … and a change in the style of management is what President Obama is now delivering.

As to Michelle Obama, she sounds like the daughter who never gave up loving her mother even when she thought the mother was ashamed of her. Michelle appeared to return the feeling till such time that the mother clearly expressed her pride in the daughter and her husband. Only then did Michelle utter the words: “I have always been proud of you too, mother America … and I never stopped loving you.”

The question to ask should not pertain to someone's love but to their loyalties. This is because love can neither be measured nor compared to something, whereas loyalty to someone or to something can be assessed and compared to the loyalty that one has to another someone or something. In this regard, it is better not to question Rudy Giuliani's own love for America, but to question the degree of his loyalty to America as opposed to say, his loyalty to Israel and to other Jewish causes.

What begins you on this track is the fact that Giuliani married three times. Right there, an endless stream of questions can be asked as to when he stopped loving one woman in favor of the next. And by what percentage his love for one woman was reduced before realizing that he loved another by a higher percentage. This being a futile exercise, it is better to leave it aside, and to stick with the question of loyalties.

And given the fact that the last of Giuliani's wives is Jewish; an ideology where no love is allowed to exist unless it is transformed into loyalty to Israel and to all Jewish causes, the question becomes this: Does Rudy Giuliani realize that he is motivated not by love but by a Svengali kind of brainwashing which makes him sabotage America's interests in favor of promoting Israel's interests – and the other Jewish causes?

This is pertinent in view of the fact that – like Rudy Giuliani – the people who question Obama's love for America are the ones who clearly, unequivocally and shamelessly display their “love” for Netanyahu … an almost exact replication of the intense love that the Jews used to display towards Joseph Stalin; the butcher of the old Soviet Union to whom they referred as their dear uncle.

When we see the intensity with which subject matters are being debated nowadays, we cannot fail to conclude that we are approaching the apogee of something without knowing what it is. The only thing we can be certain of is that a general kind of dissatisfaction is setting-in among the masses which are clamoring for the perfection of the authentic, wishing to see it triumph over the shoddiness of the fake imitations.

And Rudy Giuliani is a fake imitation of what human beings are really like.