Excellent astute insight there Mariner!..thanks for posting
Admittedly, this is a grotesque metaphor of the current condition. But the end justifies the description. Aren’t we dying as a nation because the Republican Party – with its obsession with guns, violence, wars, myths, fear and hate – is tied to our backs? Somehow we can’t rid ourselves of their influence; neither can we escape to another planet. We’re married to the mob and tortured forever.
The Nazis Party, with its nasty little prejudices and cultic myths, was Germany’s dead corpse strapped to its back. Republicans are ours.
..they ARE the CONFEDERATE party, they have NEVER gotten over LOSING that war..
During the Civil War, southern sympathizers in Jacksonville raised the Confederate flag before thinking better of it.