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| Rage, Rage, Against the Dying of the Dream |
| 2018-09-14 |
| h/t Instapundit [AmGreatness] Homer’s Muse sings of the rage of Achilles, brought forth from his tent by the death of his friend Patroclus to engage the Trojan hero, Hector, in mortal combat. But Achilles’ anger solves nothing; although he kills Hector, he then desecrates the body by dragging it around the walls of Troy, thus violating the laws of warfare and sealing his own fate. His determination to avenge his friend thus becomes "the accursed rage that brought great suffering to the Achaeans." In the end, it’s not the rage of Achilles that wins the war for the Greeks, but the trickery of Odysseus that finagles the wooden horse inside the impregnable gates of Ilium. We are witnessing a similar self-destructive rage today: the rage of the American Left against the Trump Administration in general and the president in particular, an explosion of frustrated, impotent (but still dangerous) anger that has given up all pretense of genuine protest‐against the results of a duly constituted American election, let us remember‐and has devolved instead into a toddler’s extended tantrum. It bears the hallmarks of one of the most unseemly displays in American political history. I guess electing and reelecting somebody totally devoid of any ability like Obama, did make them think that USA is their bitch |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 This November will tell us whether there is a price to be paid or a reward to be won for their behavior. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-09-14 19:54 |