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DENNIS PATRICK: BIDEN BYTES |
Lewis Carroll published “Through the Looking Glass” (1871) as a sequel to his other novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865). Alice enters a bizarre and fanciful world by stepping through a mirror. She can see the “other world” beyond the mirror and when she enters it she finds that everything reflected in the mirror is reversed -- including logic. As such, running helps one stay stationary, walking away from something brings one towards it, chessmen are alive, and nursery rhyme characters exist. And so it goes. The reader meets “Jabberwocky,” “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” and “Tweedledum and Tweedledee.”
In modern parlance, through Carroll’s looking glass we meet President Biden and his cabinet. We know all about aristocracy, autocracy, theocracy, plutocracy, democracy. We are now learning about “kakistocracy” defined as government run by the least suitable or most incompetent citizens of a state. This fits Biden and his administration to a “T,” ergo events of his first seven months in office. (The debate still rages as to how these people acquired power in the first place.)
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