Posted on 03/03/2016 7:32:55 AM PST by Be Careful
Starbuck really is Howard Schultz...."he has not come for vengeance but for profit".
Backwards ... Trump is Ahab, Mobey is RNC
The GOPe is destined to be tangled in its own harpoon lines on his side as Moby Dick majestically sounds to 3,000 feet.
That can be true, too! A bit of light-hearted thinking, this!
McConnell, obviously
Trump is the captain of one of those ships warning the Pequot not to persist in its voyage of madness!
Hmmm ... VEDDY IN-tedesting
Who is Elijah?
I think the best metaphor is Romney emerging as the albatross around the GOPe’s neck:
God save thee, ancient Mariner
From the fiends, that plague thee thus
Why look’st thou so ? - With my cross-bow
I shot the ALBATROSS.
...
Ah. well a-day. what evil looks
Had I from old and young
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
When insurgents attack and a group of people, some are thinking...wow, what happened? What did WE do to trigger this? We have a similar analogy with the GOPe. What did WE do to set off the insurgents (Trump and other 'outsiders')?
Except in this case, the GOPe sent many so-called conservatives to Congress, then they folded like a cheap tent and/or incumbent Republicans did not support them - or even attacked them. Leadership caved (Boehner, McConnel, and recently Ryan) to Obama, Reid, and Pelosi. The people revolted and attacked the GOPe via the TEA Party and the Trump Tidalwave.
But, the GOPe refuse to answer the issue of “Hey, what did WE do to trigger this?”. The GOPe needs some introspection - a concept which they absolutely cannot grasp. They are genetically incapable of understanding the anger of "the great unwashed" whom they failed.
Trump is a symptom, not the illness.
Romney was - and still is - a dismal failure, not a just-in-time Super Hero.
If Romney had attacked Obama then like he is attacking Trump now, things may have been different.
It is Western "Liberalism" that pursues the mad quest to destroy the evil in its own heart, at the cost of its own destruction and the destruction of anyone and any thing that gets in its way.
It is Western "Liberalism" that is insane!
Any mutiny against the Mad Ahab of Western Civilization is perceived as part of the evil by those caught in the madness!
Those who follow Ahab follow him to destruction!
Only those who can resist him and his madness will survive to tell the tale!
Be forewarned! Western Civilization began with tales of hubris and denial, of suicidal madness, with warnings!
If the Ahabs and their followers do not awaken from their madness-and soon! Western Civilization will end in hubris, denial, and suicidal madness!
Be forewarned!
Perhaps the great irony is that Americans heed the warnings,
Whereas Europeans can see no alternative to their voyage of self-destruction!
Elijah’s Prophecy...One day you will smell land where there be no land...and on that day Ahab will go to his grave, but he will rise again and beckon...and all will follow...all save one.
Elijah is a metaphor ... the American people ... ?
Glenn Beck, hands down.
Trump is the evil white whale to Beck, who is just as nutcake fanatical about harpooning him as Captain Ahab, who was pretty bats*** crazy, too.
Who is Queequeg? I always thought Queequeg was cool.
What irony if the Americans are the only ones who understand it!
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