A deluded ideologues willing to sacrifice life and limb for a progressive cause/caption
All of me Why not take all of me
Cant you see Im no good without you
Take my lips I want to loose them
Take my arms Ill never use them
Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry
How can I go on dear without you...
From the movie theme of All of Me" (1984)
Given the generally unhinged and hysterical state of todays vanquished progressives its singularly appropriate that a dark interpretation of the title song from a 1984 movie would suddenly come to bear. With President Trumps Supreme Court nomination of the eminently qualified Neil Gorsuch 49 their squirrelly thoughts shift wildly to the future loss of crone Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 83. Compare the above stanza with the following disjointed rant exemplified by The Washington Posts Rachel Manteuffel:
Ive found myself thinking about you lately and how things are going with you and I just wanted you to know that I ... have some tokens of my esteem that you might enjoy. Such as blood. If you have any need for blood you can have the eight or so units of A-positive that are right here in my body. Theres also a gently used liver in here lobes of it just lying around if you need them.... Do you like platelets? I have excellent platelets. I have had all my shots. ... My kidneys function well. I have two. Either one is yours for the taking. Both if need be. … I have scads of nerves that you can have. Just take them. My skin would graft onto you beautifully. Bones stem cells a whole eyeball I dont need feet of intestines feet. Just a ridiculous amount of health way more than should rightly belong to someone with my standing in the world."
Ms. Manteuffel also specifies her large heart to be trimmed to fit Justice Ginsburgs diminutive size. This frankly gory element brings to mind another body parts film The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) (released synchronistically on Valentines Day). Specifically how is one not graphically reminded of Jame Gumbs basement lair of kidnapped and skinned women or Hannibal Lecter when Manteuffel suggests:
If you need to keep me on life support in your house just in case while you slice off any bits that appeal to you that is totally fine and my loved ones will understand. … We have discussed it."
Ah what would Dr. Lecter say about that conversation? In any case notice the conspicuous absence from the rambling list of human anatomy: this scribblers brain. Is that because Manteuffel knows Ms. Ginsburg has no use for such an inferior organ? Or does this Post employee use her gray matter so infrequently that it never occurs to her to offer it? Indeed her opinion piece is so bizarre she should be known henceforth as Macabre Manteuffel!
MM" would greatly benefit from reading On Death and Dying" (1969) by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Within the five stages of grief resulting from an unexpected loss (read: the 2016 presidential election) are detailed. Philosophically Manteuffel is stuck at stage three known as bargaining. Still the ultimate goal of any grieving process is acceptance. That means intensive therapy though not with Hannibal the Cannibal". This deluded ideologue will need to keep all of her body parts to get there.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.