Karl Rove is a has-been whose glory days are behind him. He
was of the people during the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, a crucial time in
the political transformation of the United States . But those days are
gone, and he failed to catch up with the changing times.
His was a time when the American culture was imbued with
religiosity brought about by the televangelists who used the airwaves more
effectively than the Oriental gurus were able to infiltrate the youth culture
on the college campuses, and make waves two decades earlier. The gurus were
still a force to be reckoned with when Karl Rove came on the scene, but he had
the chance to see how the Christians were able to push them to the side, take
control of the spiritual space and fill it with their gospel.
The televangelists who called themselves pastors suddenly
became political and turned their flocks into a new class of voters that came
to be known as Evangelicals. But while Evangel refers to the Christian gospel
of attaining salvation through love, humility and forgiveness, the Jewish
owners of the American media from where the Christians preached, blackmailed
the men of the cloth and forced them to turn reality on its head.
Handing them the oxymoron they named Judeo-Christian, the
Jewish leaders ordered the Christian pastors to pollute the airwaves with all
the noise they could make using that idea. The televangelists responded by
conflating the two religions, making the blood-soaked Judaism sound like the Christian
motto: love thy neighbor.
The pastors went around preaching to their flocks that
salvation will come not through the Christian teachings they grew up with, but
through the acceptance of Jewish supremacy. And this happened to be the sort of
cultural rot that the newly formed neocons were looking for. They embraced the
trend like a spiritual manna, and they fed on it like the flies that feed on
rotting organisms.
Armed with these realities and knowing how to use them, Karl
Rove joined the George W. Bush campaign, doing a masterful job at getting the
rank-and-file Evangelicals to vote for his boss. The result was that Bush won
the presidency, and took eight years to make a mess of America 's
economy, its politics and its diplomacy. By the time the Bush era had come to
an end, things in America
were as murky as the muddied waters that the Jewish leaders and their Christian
disciples were able to make them.
The era of Barack Obama followed that of Bush-Rove. Now,
eight years later, the Donald Trump era is about to start. Sixteen years since
the time that Karl Rove was of the people, he is trying to get back in the
saddle, apparently unaware that the world has changed. Remodeled by the
Washington Beltway, he wrote an article that came under the title: “Keith
Ellison Will Help Republicans” and the subtitle: “The candidate to run for the
Democratic Party backed Farrakhan and always votes left.” It was published on
December 8, 2016 in the Wall Street Journal.
What is Karl Rove saying? Nothing much really. In fact a
more pertinent question would be: What is he trying
to do? And the answer is that as a Republican, he could not give the Democrats
a friendly advice with regard to whom they should vote when choosing a chair
for their National Committee. And so, he pretends to conduct an analysis that
would be consistent with a dispassionate observer.
He recommends the rejection of
Representative Keith Ellison for two reasons. The first is that Ellison is too
much of a left-winger, he says. The second is that the man was at one time too
close to Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam.
Knowing how popular the message of arch left-winger Bernie
Sanders was during the last campaign, Karl Rove does not make much of Ellison's
left leanings. Instead, he concentrates on the candidate's past association
which he characterizes as poisonous. But here too, Rove does not concentrate on
the person of Farrakhan as much as he does on Islam, the man's religion.
At the core of Rove's preoccupation are Israel and the
Jews. Here is what he says: “A transcript surfaced in which he [Ellison] said
the U.S. 'can't allow
another country to treat us like we're their ATM.' He also complained that America 's Middle East
policy 'is governed by what is good or bad through a country of seven million
people.' This would further strain the Democratic Party's relationship with the
Jewish community”.
As can be seen in that passage, Karl Rove lives in a bubble
where they believe it is possible to promote the interests of Israel and the
Jews by denigrating someone else. If this were true, half a century of throwing
insults at the Arabs would have prevented the rise of a movement that's not shy
to call America , not U.S.A. , but
Jew.S.A.