I'm supposed to be on vacation but things keep happening that I cannot leave without a response. So here is my contribution for this week.
In the House of Representatives of the US Congress that has just dissolved, 53 pimps and prostitutes, madams and gigolos did what has come to epitomize America's fall from the pedestal of superpower and symbolize the country's descent into the cesspool of irrelevance, uselessness and the designation – together with Israel -- of being dangerous to the civilized heritage that humanity has built for itself. When contrasted against the background that was America's glorious history in the Twentieth Century, the current state of America can only leave you with sorrow and pity at the massive losses that the American people are made to endure at this time and will undoubtedly continue to endure in the years and decades to come. To put all this into context and to understand its ramifications, it is necessary to paint the background against which the events have unfolded in the recent past and are still unfolding at this time.
The American system of governance used to be thought of as the model of political ingenuity and the cause of everything supreme and enviable happening in that nation. The American people themselves thought that their country was exceptional, and most of the world concurred with this perception. But not anymore. Gone are the days when the young in the emerging nations of the world used to dream of seeing their countries develop and become magnificent like America. Today, America is seen as the decaying empire that is posing a grave danger to the world while it continues to crumble and blame its misfortune on everyone but itself. If anything, the world would like to help America stay on its feet to minimize the damage it may cause by its descent into greater ruin. Alas, the more that time passes the more it becomes clear that this will be a difficult thing to achieve if not an impossible one because the disease that is affecting America today is more exceptional in a negative sense than the positive exceptionalism which was attributed to the country in times past.
Since the beginning of time, wise people have known that no system can be made so perfect as to be invulnerable to all manners of encroachment. The Americans have known this too, and one of their greats alluded to it when he said that the cure to the problems of democracy was more democracy. He acknowledged by this that democracy can run into difficulties but he only offered the general assurance that the cure to such problems will be found within democracy itself. Unfortunately, he refrained from getting into the argument any deeper than that and he did not give specific examples to enlighten the discourse. However, it is becoming clearer by the day that inasmuch as the cure to the problems of democracy can be found inside democracy, the diseases of democracy can be caused by the excesses generated by democracy. Thus, democracy has within it both the disease to cause its own problems and the cure to remove them. Because of this, democracy should be seen as neither superior to any system of governance nor inferior to them given that all systems are a work in progress exhibiting varying degrees of strengths and weaknesses and depending for their execution on the character of the people at the helm.
What this says is that when you stand in a frame of reference that is outside of America's frame, the country appears to be no more exceptional at this time than the other countries. But if you step inside America's frame of reference, you view things differently and conclude that America is still an exceptional country. Thus, it can be stated logically that what is exceptional about America today is that it is so molded as to believe it is exceptional whether or not this is true. And because most of the country's behavior is tethered to this notion, it will be difficult to find a cure for the disease. But this attitude is something new to America; it is a trait that the country has acquired at a time when it was beginning to lose ground to other nations. Previous to that, America displayed greatness by being modest; it was a time when America did not think of itself as being above anyone and did not behave in such manner. The superpower was happy to live as equal with its fellow human beings even when it was clearly ahead of everyone. So then, what happened to change all that?
We find the answer to this question when we realize that people view themselves as being exceptional when they start to believe they were made superior by a force they cannot explain and do not try to explain because they prefer to live with the fantasy than probe it and risk discovering they were wrong. The reality is that since the beginning of recorded history, people have been made to feel superior by virtue of belonging to a racial, ethnic or religious group, and it is out of this notion that all forms of exceptionalist behavior were derived. From the dynasties of ancient eras who thought they were gods to the Nazis of the modern era who thought they were made of a genetically superior material, many such notions have come and gone. But one such notion has persisted through time and has refused to go away despite the fact that its adherents were put to death because of their beliefs and what the beliefs made them do. This notion came into being in the Second Century AD and was given the name Rabbinical Judaism. From that time to this day, it has been recruiting new adherents by telling them that they will become the chosen children of God when they convert. Some apparently normal and intelligent human beings fall for the pitch and do convert.
If there is something different about this notion, it is that those who pitch it have found a way to live like leeches at the expense of their hosts then bolt out when disaster hits. It may be argued that this is something so unique to it; it makes it exceptional at least in this one sense. And the way that these leeches live at the expense of their hosts is to make them a very simple proposition: “Someone took something that belongs to you. Hand me your soul and I shall help you take back what is yours.” This is what the Zionist movement adhering to Rabbinical Judaism told the Americans about Arab oil when the Arabs were getting 2 dollars and 60 cents for each barrel they sold. But instead of getting Israel to help America procure the oil at a cheaper price as promised, the Americans are now paying nearly 100 dollars a barrel having spent a trillion dollars already fighting the Arabs and all of Islam trying to take what the Jewish organizations told them was theirs. In addition, America that sold its soul for a fake promise is now dishing out nearly a billion dollars a month in direct and indirect ways to supply that same Israel with energy. And America is doing all of this apparently unaware that the alternative is to tell the little fart that it should work things out with its neighbors and learn to live with them like normal human beings do everywhere else on the planet.
But why did America not see the writing on the wall and deduce that things were not going to happen as promised? Because America was fooled by the supremacist argument. It was told by the Jewish organizations that have owned it for sometime and are running it through directives issued by the group calling itself AIPAC that the world hates America not because of what it was made to do but because it is big and strong, because it is beautiful and magnificent and because every one in the world is envious and hateful of its achievements like they are of the Jews who have achieved the status of chosen children of God. So here they are; the Jews who are the chosen ones and America that is the exceptional one, both of whom will so remain until the time comes when the AIPAC leaders will decide that it is time for them to bolt out and abandon the suckers who bought their pitch and converted to their fake religion. They will leave the suckers to fend for themselves all alone and defend their existence against a looming pogrom or a full blown holocaust. As you can see, my friend, the wheel goes round and round yet some people never learn that was goes around comes around.
Which brings us around to the 53 pimps and prostitutes, madams and gigolos at the US House of Representatives. What these people did was to take advantage of a deficiency in the rules of the House pertaining to the quorum. It used to be that at least half the members of the House should be present to make a quorum upon which a vote can be taken. This rule still exists on the books but because the duties of the members proliferated and they could not always make a quorum, the House amended its own rule and made it so that any number of people can get together -- say in the middle of the night -- and call themselves a lawfully constituted quorum unless one member objects and insists that a count be taken to make sure that at least 218 members are present. But this is a whole bunch of hogwash because if you are 53 pimps and prostitutes, madams and gigolos, you will not make a point of order to show that you are participating in the whorish exercise that is the Judeo-American style of democracy. Instead, you will go ahead with the vote and even have a consensus because if you had one dissension, you will not have been allowed to take the vote in the first place.
And so, it was said that the US House of Representatives has passed a resolution by consensus filled with filth and garbage, crap and scum as a way to urge the American Administration to stand by Netanyahu of Israel, give him all that he wants and give him even more. And on cue, the Jewish propaganda machine got into gear, lit up it afterburners and took the news to the world, especially the Arab world to tell them that Netanyahu's pimps and prostitutes, madams and gigolos in Washington are still in control of America and they will continue to consume what is left of that pathetic place for the glory of Israel.
Is there a cure for this disease? Time will tell. In the meantime, however, the new Congress should look at the quorum rule of the House and do something about it.