I love this metaphor! (I also am not typically a musical lover but this play is one of my favorites.)
I agree with your post. We have to hold our ground on the shutdown and let those who voted for Trump in 2024 feel the intense pain. Many will die. Sadly, that's probably the only thing that wake up the ones who make it through.
But will the Dems cave? I'm very afraid they will.
The perfect metaphor for late-stage American governance: a carnivorous plant in a flag pin, humming the anthem while it slurps up democracy. Every “clean continuing resolution” is another gallon of blood poured down its gullet, and every pearl-clutching senator insisting “we can’t just stop funding the government” is basically holding a straw.
We’ve mistaken compliance for stability. The fascist organism doesn’t need our consent anymore; it has direct deposit. This isn’t law and order, it’s hunger management for a regime that eats civil rights and calls it bipartisanship.
If we want the Republic to breathe again, we stop feeding the monster. Cut off its allowance. No more “emergency powers,” no more blank checks for authoritarianism in a business suit. Let it starve, then plant something human in the soil it stole.
I love this metaphor! (I also am not typically a musical lover but this play is one of my favorites.)
I agree with your post. We have to hold our ground on the shutdown and let those who voted for Trump in 2024 feel the intense pain. Many will die. Sadly, that's probably the only thing that wake up the ones who make it through.
But will the Dems cave? I'm very afraid they will.
Wow! You hit it right again!
Now THIS is what we call a descriptive metaphor. Much more satisfying and accurate mental image.
absolutely spot on!! best metaphor I have read on our sick, capricious government. we have to starve the beast if we are to survive.
Perfect metaphor
What a great and insightful analogy! Sharing this everywhere!
Perfect analogy.
FANTASTIC!!!
We're headed for the last Roundup®
The Democratic states must withhold federal funds. They will not see any state sharing during Tempertantrump term.
👍 poison ivy. Spreads easily. Tough to eradicate. Leaves a painful burning itch. Roundup kills everything. Including humans.
That was a brilliant way to describe the situation. Thank you!
And the ovens burning...
The perfect metaphor for late-stage American governance: a carnivorous plant in a flag pin, humming the anthem while it slurps up democracy. Every “clean continuing resolution” is another gallon of blood poured down its gullet, and every pearl-clutching senator insisting “we can’t just stop funding the government” is basically holding a straw.
We’ve mistaken compliance for stability. The fascist organism doesn’t need our consent anymore; it has direct deposit. This isn’t law and order, it’s hunger management for a regime that eats civil rights and calls it bipartisanship.
If we want the Republic to breathe again, we stop feeding the monster. Cut off its allowance. No more “emergency powers,” no more blank checks for authoritarianism in a business suit. Let it starve, then plant something human in the soil it stole.
https://twvme.substack.com/p/when-the-cupboard-is-bare-we-shut
Love the analogy! Makes me think of my daughter's Castle Gray Skull Slime trap!
I almost fell off my chair.