“Drifting out to sea”, “delusional” — what a metaphor this sad story is on what’s happening today at the highest levels of government. The financial markets and economy have momentarily turtled and we’re trading life jacket principles for cement shoe ideas of change.
Messages come delivered in strange wrappers sometimes. A story of challenge, extreme adversity to those considered the strongest. The results: two give up and succumb, another persists and persists but then foolishly swims away without a lifevest and the fourth, having seen the two give up to death, the third foolishly swim into certain death, hangs on and hangs on, never giving up. Heroism takes a strange shape, but he is a hero.
Your parallel to the current situation with our leaders is apt, and frightening.
Hang tough!