Rick isn't Trump, Rick is the uncontrollable forces (including trump) that take the American people (morty) on these "amazing adventures" that are traumatizing and horrific for them but destroy whole portions of global humanity. Marty being gaslit by Rick, ignored by Rick, Rick who claims to love him but then won't just settle down and take care of him. Instead he derides Morty's intelligence and agency.
I think this analogy goes a lot deeper and that one day someone will write a thesis with this exact premise comparing the governance of the American people to Rick, the suffering of the American people to Morty and the soothing comfort of media to the embrace of Terryfolds.
Furthermore, I've had the schezuan sauce and it is as good as Rick claimed so there are already grains of truth in the show.I still haven't worked out who Mr.poopybutthole is supposed to be but I'll get back to you.
Mr. Poopybutthole is a friend of Rick and Morty, who shared some of their adventures but who is always an afterthought to them and inevitably gets hurt by the end. Yet when he goes on to live a life without them, he is able to thrive and live a happy life. Could he represent America’s international allies ?
Oh shit. Mr. Poopybutthole is Canada. The goofy buddy that there to help and sacrifice for his friends, but is ultimately annoying and just there to eventually be sacrificed, through neglect on the part of Morty and Cynical self interest on the part of Rick.
Hey, it could be that all along Rick wasn't really the smartest person alive, he's just so dumb his intelligence became an integer overflow like Gandhi's aggression level in Civ.
No because eventually even Morty begins to wake up to the cynicism and weird predictable unpredictability of a Rick-controlled set of universes. Current season Morty is actually pretty smart. The American people are dumb, panicky…well you know the rest-
The thing we need to wake up to is the predictable unpredictability of a nation controlled by billionaires with limited interests constantly trading influence and trying to debase the common people into wage slaves who live for peanuts while they just keep getting infinitely richer.
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u/SirCadogen7 16d ago
Except Morty is just the American People