Boomer’s Sunday

Good stuff.

Lots of Star Wars memes for some odd reason… It’s almost like a B-List (at best) actor who is known primarily for playing an iconic hero in the series became a real-life villain. I’ll play film school student and theorize as to why Hamill’s pro-FJB antics are so disturbingly amusing.

Throughout the original trilogy, Luke Skywalker evolves from a simple farm boy into a powerful Jedi that is pivotal to defeating an evil Empire. While Darth Vader is the face of that Empire, we gradually learn that he is a tragic character who was corrupted by hatred and molded into what he becomes (the prequel trilogy later elaborates). In a sense, Vader is similar to many of our senior military leaders, corrupted by their quest for power and the machinations of our political system. See, Milley, Austin, etc. By most accounts, they were good junior and senior leaders up to their first couple of stars, but as they reached the pinnacle of power, they became more concerned with pleasing their masters than with taking care of those serving under them.

The true villain, Palpatine, is a career politician who–with the aid of others–maneuvered his way to turn the Republic into an Empire led solely by him. Our current (p)Resident-in-Chief is a career politician who spent years maneuvering his way into our highest office, supported by his fellow Dems and turncoat Reps. I’m not calling FJB a Palpatine-like character; it seems that the Clintons and Obamas are more likely to be pulling strings that most of us can’t see.

There is so many illustrations here of socialist behavior, one would think they would see the light from one of these points. That they would become enlightened to their follies. Nope they continue down the road of despair causing themselves more pain. Idiots is all I see.