Situated in the United States of America, the District of
Columbia has gotten itself a new congress; one that will be inaugurated on this
day, January 3, 2013. And the question everyone is asking at this time is the
following: What should the rest of the world expect from this congress going
forward? Will it turn out to be a new wine in a new bottle? Or will it turn out
to be a new version of the same old vinegar disguised as wine and packed in the
same old bottle?
Because institutions are designed, put together and managed
by human beings, they tend to have a run that more or less resembles the run of
a living organism, if not match the run of a human life. That is, all
institutions begin their run as forward looking ideal projects endowed at the
start with what looks like a clear plan, and having ample energies to implement
the plan. Such institutions would be willing to try new things, expecting to
make a large contribution to whatever field they are meant to serve.
What happens with the passage of time, however, is that the
institutions begin to experience the same sort of ailments that besiege the
human organism as it gets on with age. And this is when the people who run
those institutions spend more time and more effort not to do what is expected
of them, but to mask their failure to act where they were required to act, and
to mask the mistakes they made where they acted unwisely and failed deplorably.
The analogy often used to describe a situation like this is that the same old
wine is now being served in a new bottle.
As an institution, the congress of the United States of
America is no exception in that it has gone through a similar sort of evolution
in a period of time that has lasted nearly two and a half centuries. What is
unique about it, however, is that the new bottle in which the congressional
wine is supposed to be served was found to contain neither old wine that is
getting better with time nor wine of any age that is going stale. Instead, the
bottle was found to contain vinegar that is becoming more tart with the passage
of time – and there is a reason for that.
It is that the content of the bottle is not evolving as
expected even under the worst scenario you can imagine. Rather, the content has
gone sour as would a wine that has been contaminated with bacteria. And this is
where the analogy about the American Congress being like wine no longer
applies, and must be abandoned in favor of adopting another analogy; one that
will describe the current situation more accurately. To this end, we need to
consider the analogy of the snake whose skin is now shedding once every so
often.
So far, one hundred and twelve Congresses have served the
United States of America since independence where a part of the snake's skin
has shed once every two years, and another part has shed once every six years.
Likewise, the one hundred and thirteenth Congress is about to be inaugurated
with a House of Representatives in which all the members were elected or
reelected for a two-year term, and a Senate where a third of the members were
elected or reelected for a six-year term.
Two trends have conspired to transform the image of
America's congress from the analogy of a wine that was supposed to get better
with time to the analogy of a snake that is shedding its skin at regular times.
The first trend is known as the practice of gerrymandering the districts;
something that is done by the governors of the various states in the Union. The
second trend is known as the meddling in those districts by the Jewish lobby
which has been renamed the Israeli lobby for a reason that remains obscure to
this day. But whether you call the lobby by this name or you call it by that
name, the meddling is done openly some of the time, and done when no one is
watching most of the time.
The first trend entails that the governor redesigns the
boundaries of the districts in his or her state to make as many of them contain
a majority of voters favoring one's own Party. The aim here is to help elect
enough representatives of one's own persuasion, thus lend to the electoral
college of the state the color of one's own Party. This practice has resulted
in many districts in America becoming solidly of one political persuasion or
the other; a trend that has inescapably polarized the Republic into factions
forever at loggerhead with one another.
As to the second trend, it entails that the Jewish lobby use
the dirt gathered on the candidates running for office to blackmail them and
make them serve the Jewish and Israeli causes which – we were told time and
again -- were one and the same because to be a Jew is to be an Israeli
according to Israeli law. Indeed, the members of the lobby were able to
accomplish all that they did not because they acted as agents of a foreign
government but because they claimed to be Americans who happen to adhere to the
Jewish faith; a group that has rights under the American Constitution.
Thus, by fusing the two identities (Jewish and Israeli,)
these people had it both ways: they served the interests of a foreign
government not as traitors but as Americans whose treasonous activities were
protected by none other than the Constitution of the land. And nothing could be
more Jewish than having it both ways.
The result of the two trends has been that the Congress of
the United States of America has become totally paralyzed when it comes to
serving the interests of America and the American people, forever “kicking the
can down the road” when it comes to serving the nation.
But when it comes to serving the Jewish and Israeli causes,
the members of the now infamous congress fall over each other to demonstrate
what obedient servants of the Jewish lobby they have become. And they work like
loving dogs to advance the Jewish causes at home, and the Israeli causes
abroad.
All this has been happening at the cost of American wealth
and American blood; a reality that shows why the analogy of the snake applies
more aptly to the current situation.