Sunday, February 14, 2021

The GOP is dissolving into a black puddle.

 I think the Republican Party has taken the myth of rightful Christian dominance over Native Americans and the rights of Christian property owners (slave owning aristocrats of the American South) as far as it can go in a democracy.


The Koch Party better known as the Republican Party wants to bring back the wealthy white people property rights  (corporations with human rights) of the antebellum Southern aristocratic slave owners and the myth of the American West. 


It’s over, the United States is no longer a frontier. And efforts to create slavery by another name in the United States are crumbling. 




It’s about our nations original sins. The Republican Party clings to the property rights to hold slaves written into our Constitution by the most wealthy residents of the United States at the time, the aristocratic slave owners of the south.  




The Republican Party seeks revenge for General Custer by drilling for profit on the sacred land of Native Americans.




The “Winged Monkeys” in the “Wizard of Oz” represent Native Americans.


The “Wicked Witch of the West” represents the American West. 


The cyclone represents the “political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land of color and unlimited prosperity.”



And the GOP is dissolving into a black puddle.







"Taylor also claimed a sort of iconography for the cyclone: it was used in the 1890s as a metaphor for a political revolution that would transform the drab country into a land of color and unlimited prosperity. It was also used by editorial cartoonists of the 1890s to represent political upheaval.[10]


Dorothy would represent the goodness and innocence of human kind.


Other putative allegorical devices of the book include the Wicked Witch of the West as a figure for the actual American West; if this is true, then the Winged Monkeys could represent another western danger:

 

Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The King of the Winged Monkeys tells Dorothy, "Once we were a free people, living happily in the great forest, flying from tree to tree, eating nuts and fruit and doing just as we pleased without calling anybody master. ... This was many years ago, long before Oz came out of the clouds to rule over this land."[9]"



"The monkeys caught Dorothy in their arms
and flew away with her"—
illustration by 
W. W. Denslow in  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)



Margaret Hamilton as the Witch

 in the 1939 film version, 

threatening Dorothy (Judy Garlan


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Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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