Banana Republicans
As comrade trump and senate republicans continue to hold the nation hostage over demands for their nonsensical “wall,” the country is looking more and more like a Banana Republic.
Though differing in significant ways from our wall fiasco, the Brexit mess currently playing out in Britain parallels our own dilemma in ways such as foolishness of concept, failure of key players to comprehend the whole picture including its implications, and inability of those players to grasp the degree of departure from reality required to maintain their maladaptive positions.
A few days ago, in response to the Brexit disaster, the grandson of Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames, tweeted lines from a poem by Edwin J. Milliken that Churchill had quoted in the 1930s expressing his despair at Britain’s political paralysis in the face of the Nazi threat.
Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak, and the couplings strain.
For the pace is hot and the points are near,
And sleep hath deadened the driver’s ear,
And signals flash through the night in vain.
Who is in charge of the clattering train?”
These words are every bit as applicable to our present situation here in the USA. What will it take for senator McTortoise (apologies to any offended terrapins) and his band of misguided partisans to wake up and stop being Banana Republicans?
Tim Konrad
January 16, 2019
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