Bush = Puzzle and Cheney/Rove = Shift from C. S. Lewis' The Last Battle

[ProfessorPlum]

If you’ve ever read the C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, you may have noticed how much Bush and Cheney (or perhaps Rove) resemble the pair Puzzle the Donkey and Shift the Ape in the seventh book, The Last Battle. In that book, the power-hungry ape dresses an ignorant (but good-hearted – here the analogy breaks down) donkey in the heroic/godlike skin of a lion and passes him off as the leonine deity Aslan. As Puzzle mouths the words of Shift’s speeches to the frightened animals of Narnia, they create an authoritarian state where the ape lives corruptly off of the animals’ sacrifice and labor, betrays them to a foreign power and finally creates a war. The book was written over fifty years ago.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Spot on! I did a post along this line quite awhile ago. And...

remember all of the defeated dwarfs who couldn't comprehend acts of kindness or see what was really going on? Those are the 25% hard core bushbots.

[ProfessorPlum]

2. those dwarfs have haunted me ever since I read the book as a child

it's really frightening to think about not being able to agree on what is true with people - and to meet people as an adult and realize we will never, as a species, agree on what "reality" is. You are absolutely right on - those people are Bush's dead enders.

[bryant69]

3. That's not bad.

And yeah the parallels are there.

Bryant
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