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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs Trump the Lord of the Flies and his administration
the boys on the island?
Lord of the Flies is fiction.
The Trump administration is reality.
Raven
(13,889 posts)PJMcK
(22,031 posts)I know you were making an analogy.
Enjoy your afternoon, Raven. Sorry for being a curmudgeon. Now, can you get off my damn lawn!
violetpastille
(1,483 posts)The "Lord of the Flies" is the devil inside us, projected outward. In Willam Golding's boozed-up, misanthropic view even little kids are blood-lusting killers with only the veneer of civilization preventing them from acting out.
I disagree with the book's premise, but I agree with your comparison.
Trump is nothing. He's a dead body, a pig-head, a hallucination. He doesn't have the physical power to cross the street.
His believers gave him power.
That power can kill, and does kill even those who don't believe.
Raven
(13,889 posts)have expressed/explained it as well as you just did.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)And Dump is a fly. That's why he's surrounded by MAGATs!