Zombie-In-Chief

NBC in the Yankee Nation Capitol has carried the story of how some folks in Mosby's Confederacy have taken umbrage to a recent depiction of Barry The Pretender as a zombie.

Loudoun County Democrat Party members have appealed to none other than Governor Robert F. McDonald who has pronounced the artist's conception of Barry as being "shameful and offensive".

In philosophical circles, the discussion of zombies is real and on-going.  They (those caught in zombiehood) illuminate problems about consciousness and its relationship to the physical world.  Zombies, in fact, raise epistemological difficulties: their existence reinstates the problem of "other minds".

Barry's tenure as the Yankee Nation's Chief Executive has been a continuous illustration of the dynamic of "other-mindedness" within political leadership.  The Mind of Barry seems incapable of accepting the simple facts of his own rejection by those he supposes that he leads: us.  When everything within his ambient culture points to the fact that one thing is true, Barry persists is conducting himself as if it weren't.  Economics and Constitutional Law are two areas in which he has not only exhibited zombie-like behavior but has proven that he is a victim of the condition as well.

My own family's roots are in the Loudoun County area and I stand in awe that any of those good citizens there would take offense at the truth.  After all, Barry as a zombie isn't all that much different from Richard Nixon crawling our of a sewer:

Deo Vindice