Great analogy.
What if the Ruling Class at the Imperial Capital were happy with and silently working for the Arabs to take over Egypt because they hated the Monophysite Christians more than the idea of losing a country?
I think that would fit the GOP Ruling Class more perfectly in how it views Conservative Christians that it hates more than the idea of losing the country itself to the MarxoFascists.
Aha! You've updated the analogy and nailed it!
The Constantinople ruling class wasn't as bad as the GOP ruling class.
Well, there is a kind of balance there: I hate the Ruling Class of the gop more than I hate the idea of losing to the dems.
The lying, cheating, thieving dem is exactly who I think he is, and I keep my eye on him.
The lying, cheating, thieving gop, until now, I trusted to do the right thing, most of the time. But since they snuck up behind me and stabbed me in the back, I want nothing to do with ‘em. I used to say with confidence that when it was nut-cutting time, the guy with the R behind his name would vote to lower taxes and cut spending. They’ve proven me wrong on the one, solid argument for loyally voting gop on the general ballot...
I didn’t leave the gop, they sorta slimed away from me, and the further away they got, the more they looked like the lying, cheating, thieving dems...and now, I can’t tell ‘em apart.