THE CABALA OF IDEOLOGY

All politics and all political donations should remain local; twenty-two states are taking a stand in a case in which Montana is asking that the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling not be used to strike down state-level campaign-financing restrictions.

In a divisive decision a few years ago, the Supreme Court sanctioned the use of outside money to decide local elections, overturning decades of precedent. In the ongoing fight to make ideology more important than governance, the people’s institutions have been the big losers.

An ideology can not be completely correct because times change and new situations require different solutions. America was founded on a coalition of ideas vying for dominance according to the reality of the moment – eventually this process was distilled down into Democrat and Republican.

The Democrats represented the demographics while the Republican’s view is of the republic. The shifting historical times brought different segments to power when needed. There is a Torah term for this process called ZeVZe Divre Elohim Chaim/Both are words of God.

This somewhat clumsy process has been replaced with the more expedient divide and conquer – resulting in the loss of, One person one vote. According to the Cabala, intentions are more important than action – the intention of these outside groups are to breed contempt amid the populous.