The Tables Are Turning

We’ve come full circle. The various struggles here in America as well as around the world all have a common denominator. At first blush it appears to center on the Tea Parties vs. the Washington establishment; or Palestinians vs. the Jews; or Islamists vs. the West. But that’s only seeing individual trees in the forest. The overall theme of the forest is consistent: The masses are rising up against the elites and the elites are fighting back trying desperately to protect the status quo.

Elites can be found on both the right and the left of the political spectrum. The Jews have been the world’s foremost elites. They have traditionally defined themselves as God’s chosen people.

For most of their history - having been denied their own soil to cultivate - they have doggedly tilled their own domain: the mind. As such, they have succeeded in defining the narrative of ‘success’ for the rest of us. Jews are hard working and disciplined. They have become highly influential within the ruling structure of numerous (particularly western) nations. They have become instrumental to the advancement of the arts, science, technology and finance. They have (perhaps) disproportionally reaped the rewards of their forward thinking under the guise of academic accolades and material success.

While there is no doubt that Jews have contributed greatly to our modern standard as we have come to accept it, this has also sown the seeds of resentment among the rest of us. While it is commonly said that those who align with the Jews will never be wanting, and those who abandon them will be assigned their own special ring in Dante’s hell; with each passing day, this particular paradigm becomes increasingly less relevant. Jews, in effect, have become the target of a predictable world-wide push-back against elitism.

Ironically, the seeds of animus against Jews may have been sown by Jews themselves. Marx’s dialectical materialism (which includes the core idea that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles") stood Moses’ law (“thou shalt not covet, steal…”) on its head. It codified what had always been quite obvious (the have-nots wanting what the haves have) and made it inevitable, sanctifying the revolution (or cleansing) by which excess and inequity are tempered. But Marx focused only on the economic aspect. He evidently did not realize that there are other hierarchies, some based on birth, others on skin color, and still others on degrees of brutality.

The mullahs of Iran also represent an elite. The same tide set to sweep the high and mighty from their pedestals applies there as well (minus the economic aspect). It is only by brutality, fear and oppression by which they can continue to rule. And, again, in America, we are finally waking up and seeing that the ruling elites have become far too big for their britches. A political re-alignment has been long overdue. The proletariat is preparing to reclaim their nation.

World unrest stems from a push-back against the ruling elite by whatever ‘isms’ they choose to identify themselves. Left or right, elites are elites. The tables are turning. The last shall be first and the first shall be last.