Oedipus Rex and The Don - Nick Brandt

  In today’s society, just as in the past, vision is a very important attribute. To drive a car or a chariot, to use a computer at work or to till the land. These practical benefits of sight are quite obvious. But on a deeper level, we need vision to foresee the consequences of our actions, we need vision to be able to assess the past, and furthermore we need vision to be able to learn from the past. Son of Laius, King of Thebes, Oedipus in Oedipus Rex exudes excellent vision in the physical sense. Yet, his sight, or better put, his clarity is astoundingly underdeveloped. This is quite similar to the Republican Party nowadays.
   The idea that Donald Trump could be stumped was weaved by most of the GOP, quite to the contrary of the reality. He was capitalizing off of free press, and using polarizing statements to garner the support of the Conservatives abroad, rather than appeasing moderates. His piquing of the public interest foreshadowed his ascendancy to the title of God-Emporer of the Grand Old Party (strictly satirical). He slew foe after trimming the flock of competitors. Similar to the Establishment’s initial veneer of stupidity, Oedipus, great solver of the Sphinx riddle couldn't  consider that the fact that he murdered men on his trek from Corinth and speculate as to whether he is the murderer the gods are angered by. While the probability of killing a man, and that man being a king is much slimmer, it's still worth putting a moment’s thought into the idea.
   Continuing down the line to the RNC, the list of candidates was shortened down to Kasich, The Don, and Lyin’ Ted. Opponents of Trump were taken aback by his prowess in the lingual and cognitive senses alike, he was playing 4D Chess as they played checkers. They had not seen such a man before, they had not the hindsight to know that just like Low Energy Jeb and Little Marco, they couldn't muster the power to match him. Cruz thought he could unethically steal delegates later on in the convention, while warned by some that fate would deliver glancing repercussions. He followed through in his wicked path and received the wrath of the media gods. Unwittingly, he would later commit political suicide. Similar to the enemies of Trump, Oedipus blindly (no pun intended) persisted in his search for the truth, despite attempted dissuading from his wife mother Jocasta. He found the thinly gilded truth and the sad reality destroyed his home. His wife mother sent to the gods, his sons into quarrel over the kingdom, his daughters into sorrow. The tragic hero also took away his mortal sight, all due to swearing by one’s impulse rather than greater vision.
   At the RNC, the fabled death of Ted Cruz’s political career came about, the stars aligned. The honest man who “always stuck to his guns” could not retain his word on a simple pledge. He sold out his party, his image, his countrymen, and his adversary Donald Trump due to a lack of vision of the repercussions as aforementioned. The God-Emperor was always mandated from the cosmos to receive the nomination, plain as pie and simple as sugar. Ted should've known you cannot defy Fate. You might have free will, yet the twain aren't mutually exclusive. The same concept applies when delving into Oedipus throughout all of Oedipus Rex. he did not possess the vision to view murder as wrong, he could not have likely foreseen killing his father, Laius, but he could've realized killing is bad nevertheless. And through his free will extraordinarily enough, the madman did what he was predestined to do. He thought he was running from his fate of killing his father Polybus in Corinth, while not realizing that Corinth was not his native land, Thebes was.
   Just like the adversaries of God-Emperor Donald Trump, the foe of the gods and their will got struck down. This largely precipitated due to their lack of vision in a larger sense; they had no understanding of the reality of their lack of say-so and their vulnerability, they had no substantial modicum of foresight or hindsight in any observable way, etc.