OT - Now that the conventions are over here is an opinion I had sent to me by a friend. My one and only post on the subject!
I think you might find this typical of the struggle between the Dems & the Republicans in the culture war.
Classic Version
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying supplies in for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks
he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come
winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper had no food or
shelter so he dies out in the cold.
Modern Version
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks
he's a fool and laughs and dances the summer away. Come winter, the
Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant
should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and
starving.
CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering
Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a
table filled with food. "America" is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can it be that in a country of such wealth, this poor Grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?
Then a representative of the NAAGB (National Association of
Green Bugs) show up on Nightline and charges the Ant with "Green Bias,"
and makes the case that the Grasshopper is the victim of 30 million
years of Greenism. Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the
Grasshopper and everybody cries when he sings "It's not Easy to be
Green." Bill and Hillary make a special guest appearance on the CBS
News to tell a concerned Dan Rather that they will do everything they
can for the Grasshopper who has been denied the prosperity he deserves
by those who benefited unfairly during the Regan summers, or as Bill
refers to it, the "Temperature of the 80's"
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house
where the news stations film the group singing "We shall overcome."
Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the Grasshopper's
sake. Richard Gephart exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that
the Ant has gotten rich off the back of the Grasshopper, and calls for
an immediate tax hike on the Ant to make him pay his "fair share."
Finally, the EEAG drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Greenism
Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The Ant is fined for
failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing
left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the
government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the Grasshopper in a
defamation suit against the Ant, and the case is tried before a panel of
federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single parent welfare
moms who can only hear cases on Thursday's between 1:30 and 3:00PM when
there are no talk shows scheduled.
The Ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the Grasshopper
finishing up the last bits of the Ant's food while the government house
he's in, which just happens to be the Ant's house, crumbles around him
since he doesn't know how to maintain it. The Ant has disappeared into
the snow. And on the TV, which Grasshopper bought by selling most of
the Ant's food, they are showing Congress, standing before a crowd of
cheering Americans, announcing that a new era of "fairness" has dawned
in the USA.
The Grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the
house now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize
the once peaceful neighborhood. |
