Sunday, August 26,
2018
They say that before
you die you see your life pass before you.
This apparently is
something true for John McCain, his life coming up as something rather empty
despite all the accolades, an angry man in the end who despised Trump not
because of politics or even because he suddenly found faith in the Democratic
agenda but because Trump stripped him of his one great accomplishment in life:
being a hero.
This is the
motivation that turned him away from the right-wing agenda and began him down
the wrong path towards the exact opposite of everything he stood for in this
life. John McCain was willing to throw overboard everything that he so-called
believed in in order to get even with Trump for that remark during a campaign
when Trump said he was not a hero.
No remark hit to the
heart so much as that one did since being the hero in Vietnam, being a prisoner
and surviving, was at the core of his existence and without it, having it stripped
away from his legacy McCain largely is nothing.
Trump was wrong;
McCain is a hero.
The unfortunate part
is that McCain became less of a hero as he sought vengeance against Trump by
selling out his soul to the Democrats as the appropriate or inappropriate revenge.
Perhaps deep in his
sickness, perhaps fear of eternal damnation, McCain began to believe his own
fantasy, that maybe he had been on the wrong side all the long his bitterness
against Trump becoming an elusive illusion of reform, trying to take back what
he stood for decades, a deathbed confession that undid his real legacy and
ultimately made him less of a hero than he once was -- except to his bitterest
enemies, the Democrats, who when he betrayed his party, became a hero of sorts
the way Benedict Arnold did to the British because Democrats hated Trump more.
It is difficult to
know where McCain's soul will end up or how history will reflect his legacy
since he is on the cusp of being both hero and scapegoat, someone who in final
days found salvation in a belief based on his bitter hatred of Trump.
Media, of course,
glorifies McCain today because media hates Trump as much as McCain did and
anyone who is an enemy of an enemy is media's friend, regardless of whether he
or she is right or wrong.
I feel sorry for
McCain because by taking back all he stood for in his life, he ultimately stood
for nothing, a sad bitter man who on his deathbed revised everything, the way a
madman rewrites his will to get even with family he can no longer stand, making
new friends of old enemies who really aren't his friends at all.
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