Childhood Fables

I often wonder how many mothers told their children the same stories, fables, and nursery rhymes that my mother told me. “Chicken Little” and “The Little Boy That Cried Wolf” resonate from the shadows of long ago, inside my head.

Someone should tell those stories to Barack Obama and his band of merry men. Rahm Emanuel’s “Never let a crisis go to waste” and Joe Biden’s prognostication that this young president would be faced with a crisis within the first six months after becoming president; and that his response would first appear to be wrong… keep slapping me in the face. From H1N1 to TARP, from bailout after bailout to the gulf oil spill, from the Arab Spring to the ever popular class warfare politics of fear, president Obama has played Chicken Little and that little boy that cried wolf.

Now we are to believe the world will plunge into catastrophic “crisis” if the national debt ceiling is not raised by August 2nd. Why? Why is the media so invested in this president and his policies? Why is this administration “Fundamentally changing America?” Why are so many accepting that it is inevitable, just because people like George Soros says so? Why are so many lying down in front of the steam roller of European style Socialism and central planning?

Scaring seniors has again been pulled out of the democrat’s playbook and dusted off. After all, it has been a very useful trick play in the past. Why not try it on a new generation? The Sesame Street generation is now old enough to vote and their indoctrination is paying dividends to the current political class. They haven’t seen this before. They have been shielded from this type of history by teacher and parent alike, perhaps with good intentions, but to the detriment of their frame of reference. Quite honestly, “Hope and Change” is warm and fuzzy. Who doesn’t like warm and fuzzy? Why look at something ugly, when there’s a plethora of distractions to entertain with whistles and buzzwords and pretty colors that just make you feel happy… and sedate… and… sleepy…

I’ll tell you why. Because when you've witnessed or been taught history’s reason to create scary stories, fables, and nursery rhymes, you are not as easily distracted. When your spidy senses start tingling and the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up, you resist the desire to go back to sleep and wait for the good ending to the dream you were having.

I keep saying it. I will keep saying it. WAKE UP, AMERICA!!! Talk to your kids and grandkids. Make them aware of what you know. Other influences are activating them, whether you like it or not.