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dickie · 6/10/2026, 8:46:38 AM · permalink

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# Who Really Runs America?

Every few years somebody comes up with a theory about who is really in charge of the United States.

The President? Please.

Congress? Don't be ridiculous.

The billionaires? Maybe.

The military-industrial complex? Getting warmer.

But then you walk through a grocery store and start noticing things.

Jews make up roughly 2% of the population.

Only about 22% of American Jews report keeping kosher at home.

That means maybe half of one percent of Americans are actively keeping kosher.

Yet more than 40% of packaged food in America carries kosher certification.

At that point you have to stop and ask questions.

How does a dietary system followed by roughly one person out of every two hundred end up stamped on nearly half the food supply?

You can spend years studying political science, economics, and sociology.

Or you can just stand in the cracker aisle and look around.

The evidence is right there.

Half the country can't define "kosher."

Most people don't know what the symbols mean.

Nobody is checking for rabbinical approval before buying potato chips.

Yet somehow the little symbols remain.

The consumer doesn't care.

The companies do.

The distributors do.

The ingredient suppliers do.

The manufacturers do.

The auditors do.

The supply chain does.

The kosher stamp achieved what every government agency dreams of achieving:

It became permanent.

Then there is the circumcision question.

America is one of the few non-Jewish countries where routine infant circumcision became widespread.

The average American man is statistically more likely to be circumcised than to keep kosher.

Think about that.

A country that mostly ignores kosher dietary rules somehow adopted the covenant package but skipped the food restrictions.

Americans looked at thousands of years of Jewish tradition and said:

"We'll take the knife part, but keep the cheeseburger."

That's not religious devotion.

That's customization.

In the end, the evidence suggests nobody actually runs America.

America is a giant machine where regulations, certifications, standards, audits, compliance programs, insurance requirements, liability concerns, and historical inertia all pile on top of one another until nobody remembers why anything exists.

The kosher symbol remains.

The circumcision remains.

The paperwork remains.

The inspectors remain.

And somewhere, in a factory you've never heard of, a guy is making kosher-certified bacon-flavored potato chips for customers who have no idea what the symbol on the package means.

If that's not America, I don't know what is.

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