Intent on being his true self to the end, William (Bill)
Kristol is offering the example of his person to the world as a case study on
the realities of authoritarianism as compared to the realities of democracy. He
wrote in this vein: “Our Once-In-A-Lifetime President” and published it on
April 5, 2015 in the Weekly Standard.
Before I discuss what's in that piece, let me tell you what
prepared me for this discussion. I was in my pre-teen years and then my teen
years when I attended a catholic school run by Christian brothers during the
decade of the 1950s. Pope Pius XII was reigning at the time, and there was
controversy about his handling of a few matters pertaining to the war that had
ended a number of years earlier. Needless to say that those matters were way
above our heads – the children that we were. But some things remained in my
memory, and I had the opportunity to ruminate over them when I matured years
later.
Two ideas drummed into my head during the early years,
clashed when I was able to reason independently. I accepted the notion that
every era required a pope with qualifications to suit it. But the question
lingered: was the pope chosen by cardinals who were thinking independently, or
was he chosen by Divine Will acting through these cardinals?
How I ultimately resolved this question is of no consequence
now that so much water has gone under the bridge, and so much has changed in my
life as well as my thinking. Suffice it to say that later in life, as I began
to think of the systems of governance which exist in this world, I found myself
using the same kind of thinking and the same kind of analysis to resolve some
questions in my head.
This brings me to the Bill Kristol article. The whole point
of his presentation is to express a profound indignation at President Obama who
views this opportunity as a “once-in-a-lifetime” event. To Kristol, this means
that: “only Barack Obama, Barack Obama truly believes, can make this historic
and transformative deal happen.” Which, in turn, leads Kristol to believe that
Obama seeks: “for this special moment, in this once-in-a-lifetime moment [that]
all should step aside, and all should defer to our once-in-a-lifetime
president.”
Well, the thing that can be said is that the saying
“once-in-a-lifetime” means we have a number of unique occurrences converging
naturally at the same time. For example, Iran has reached a point in the
development of its nuclear infrastructure never seen before. It has elected a
president with a temperament that is new to the Iranian revolution. Also, the
American people twice elected a president that does not believe in “you're with
us or you're against us” but is willing to sit and negotiate even with “rogue
nations.” All that makes this moment a special one, never to be duplicated
naturally.
Thus, for someone like William Kristol to sweep it aside,
and then propose the creation of an artificial situation that will be tweaked
to bring about a preconceived outcome – one to replace the natural outcome that
would result from the Obama approach – is to kill the democratic form of
decision making which comes naturally to human beings, and replace it with the
authoritarian form of decision making. And this will be of the kind that the
Jewish ideology fabricates all the time and seeks to impose on the world.
You can see how Kristol prepares the reader to accept that
artificiality. He mentions at the start that Obama claims the existence of a
“basic structural and strategic case for the deal on both sides.” He then
speculates: “It's a case that would presumably hold two or five or ten years
from now, and for that matter it's one that presumably held two or five or ten
years ago.” There are two presumptions here, each referring to three possibilities
of the kind that nature never repeats in the exact same way.
Only someone who believes in the oxymoron of a stagnant
evolution would say what Kristol is saying. But he does not believe a word of
what he is saying because he looks forward to the time when Obama will no
longer be president. When this happens, he hopes that he and people like him –
using all the artificial means at their disposal – will persuade the next
president to implement their agenda, and shove it down the throat of the
American people and the world.