Good evening! I am reminded that hope is a very delicate commodity in most people's lives. Hope is a quality that brightens the saddest outlook on life and inspires the will to move forward, when all else seems lost. Hope is the intangible quality that drives us to dance in the pouring rain, when others take shelter from the storm and hide with their eyes closed from fear. Hope inspires the courage to lead us through the dark valley's in life. I wouldn't want to live without it.
We are currently living one of the greatest moments in recorded history, when America is precariously teetering on the precipice of wholly obliterating democracy from the future compendiums of the American psyche.
Children born today in America, will not experience what democracy means in actual daily practice, if Trump and his basket of poisonous vipers slither through the Constitutional checks and balances of democracy unwrangled and uncontained, freely allowed to erase democracy at will. Democracy will merely become little more than a fable, read to future generations of elementary school children. Children will have no point of reference or context to accurately compare the experience of freedom to living under a dictatorship.
How could Aesop, who was a slave and storyteller of the oral tradition, living in Greece thousands of years ago, dream that his parables covering the religious, social and political issues of that time in history, would have survived in written history today? Those issues that affected the daily lives of the Greeks then, still have practical applications now.
We have forgotten the useful value of fables in modern day life. Perhaps they should be re-introduced to us, today. Would it remind and inspire us to save democracy, before it is lost? Will Americans let democracy die from widespread apathy and hopeless despair to die in ignorance?
"Don't let it end like this...tell them I said something." ~Disputed Quote of Pancho Villa upon his death~
"Good Night, Sweet Dreams and Boner Appertite!"
~Granny Annie~
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