Even in a country where unbounded democracy is said to
flourish without interference from the outside, there is a kind of
self-censorship that restrains people from carrying on with loose talk with
respect to certain topics, most of these having to do with bodily functions or
sexual reproduction.
And there lies a long story whose bits and pieces were
cobbled together in my head upon reading the latest Rich Lowry article … to
produce the following presentation. The Lowry article came under the title:
“The God That Failed” and the subtitle: “Alison Lundergan Grimes is the Todd
Akin of 2014.” It was published on October 17, 2014 in National Review Online.
The story is that I was taking a course in film-making when
we were shown a half-hour work about a girl that just had her first period. She
suffered horribly at the hands of her peers of both gender because in this
culture, having a period was something to be teased about, even shamed for.
Over the years I became aware of such preoccupation being expressed in other
works of art. Later, I taught in schools where year after year, the “thing”
flared up among the student population to the point where it could not be kept
quiet enough to escape the eyes and ears of teachers and staff.
What brought that history to mind upon reading the Lowry
article was the cobbling together of these points: “Grimes has committed a
defining gaffe. Her refusal to say she voted for Obama has the same
characteristics as Akin's rape comment. She refused to say she voted for Obama
in an editorial-board interview. After getting roasted by every political
commentator in the country, doubled down during debate.”
This told me immediately that democracy in America is
wasted on the adult-size teenagers now in charge of putting out the first draft
of American history; those who are feeding a kind of popular culture which
fails to rise above the mentality of a mob teasing a girl for having her first
period.
What Lowry does after that is what you would expect a
half-witted teenager will do when he gets to believe he's got the whole world
so well figured out, he has it in the palm of his hand. Having said she made a
gaffe of the worst kind, he now sets out to show that she falsely tries to
present herself as being better than that. He starts that part of his argument
with this: “She elevated her refusal to high principle.” And he ends it with
this: “In her own mind, Grimes is the Rosa Parks of the secret ballot.”
The fact is that Alison Grimes is neither Todd Akin nor did
she present herself as a Rosa Parks. What she did is cite Kentuky's
constitution regarding the sanctity of the ballot box to refuse revealing who
she voted for years ago. This is a right that everyone has. You can cite it to
refuse telling which way you voted, or you can violate it and reveal who you
voted for. It is entirely your prerogative, and no one has the right to force
you to explain how your period affects your mood.
How did America
get to be like that? It may take several decades before a definitive answer to
this question emerges. For now, I shall keep an eye on the undeclared civil war
that is raging among the Jews – always centered around the question: what would
be the best way to serve Israel
and World Jewry?
For a long time the Jews have lobbed subtle missiles at each
other without naming names. Forced to be more explicit than that, they invented
the concept of the two camps: the Left and the Right. And since they have near
monopoly on the political debate in America , they sucked everyone else
into their political sphere – the place where everyone is automatically labeled
of one camp or the other.
In a climate such as that, how can any subject be discussed
outside the Jewish context when, for example, the Wolf Blitzer “Situation Room”
gathers a panel that is made almost entirely of Jews?
But you don't have to be on CNN or Fox News to get drenched
with Jewish ideas on political polarization. Keep reading the Lowry article and
you'll see how he uses the Grimes incident to participate in the Jewish civil
war.