While cliché, it remains foolish to "count chickens before they hatch."
Examining eggs, however, has merit, especially in a political incubator. Certainly, any Republican chicken-hawk, in a cock-of-the-walk position, is hoping that the opposition will become over-confident and slack-off in attempts to fry their plump butts. Although the the griddle seems hot, perhaps they are right. Grease cools quickly, especially when it lubricates a media wheel. By revealing a rotten egg or two and painting opponents as a Snake in Eden, media may indeed allow these clucking cons to continue ruling the roost.
Media will not truly bite the hand that feeds it and “news” will continue to frighten the herd with repeated rhetoric about a North Korean baby bear that might grow into a monster. While repetition of a slogan sells product, is media in fact laying a gigantic egg? Painting even the rottenest idea in Easter colors gives an illusion of value but you can’t make a silk-purse from a sows’ ear. An illegal invasion based on lies lacks value in a media market-place of “family values.” At some point every animal on the farm will realize that listening to modern “news” is like letting a fox lose in their mental hen-house.
Even a young child will not repeatedly offer their Easter basket to an animal that has already stolen prized eggs. Fine fur may make predators appear attractive but wolves-in-sheep-clothing cannot fool the flock, after showing such toothy smiles. This Republican pet of the religious right shimmers in true color, as it turns on those who once thought themselves masters. Though they fed it well, their dog has no more loyalty than a fox, as it sucks dry the eggs of freedom, prosperity and morality.
The beast has already bared its economic fangs. While shining coats of stock-market camouflage were once enough to fool the flock, exporting jobs while importing cheap labor shows the herd that grazing fields will be plowed under, as their lambs are slaughtered to provide fresh meat for a Military Industrial reaper. As eggs continue to splatter in Iraq, rural America will certainly smell the stench, as they mourn relatives who died to feed the fiercest predator of the forest. Even the dumbest animal will break ranks when faced with death or starvation.
Perhaps if they dangle a carrot, their morality mule will still plow one more field. After all, no farm can grow without fuel for its machines. While a sudden drop in gasoline prices might coax a stubborn mule to plow, it will fail to fool the farm-hands. Lowering fuel prices so radically, right before elections, only shows the sheep who the REAL masters are. Mules in harness lack choices but unbridled wild animals, like sheep in the fields still have options.
Perhaps, as media crows long and loud about only two choices, it will dawn on them that sheep are taught from birth to oppose evil. Yes, repeatedly telling a religious flock that they can either "stay at home" on Election Day or vote Republican will keep some sitting quietly in the fields - instead of stampeding out to vote against corruption – but even docile critters will break herd-mentality to stand up for cherished Christian values, at some point.
For the wilder animals on the left and herd animals on the right,
1984 was a long time ago. Perhaps the time has come to move past ancient Orwellian wisdom to an
Animal Farm. Maybe some day all animals will unite to discover that the true enemy is Man. Yes, Mr. Jones is a dictator but is he the only Man that feeds on the flock? The top 3% of wealth-holders might be the REAL problem, as they slaughter wild animals, pets and livestock to prosper. In the words of a wise pig in
Animal Farm, "Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, and he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
Rest assured, these ultra-rich creatures will never contribute to the greater good of us animals. The aristocracy will throw their pets right into a cooking pot and teach their media parrot to say we failed in Iraq because that
”liberal media” didn’t support the war. When their bought and paid for political herd falters, the wealthy social parasites will have a new media parrot claim it was due to immorality and corruption, not a pointless war for personal profit because if the truth gets out, animals might unite. What are the odds of 3% holding power over 98%, when a ranch is in open rebellion? I mean, how are they going to keep them on the farm?
Still, no one can count these chickens before they hatch. In nature, when a prey animal is feeding high-on-the-hog it becomes most vulnerable. Perhaps it is time to saddle-up and ride hard, because this race ain’t over pardner.
You have wings: now learn to use them.
In closing, accept the words of a pig named Old Major on an
Animal Farm:
"Your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest....we must not come to resemble him.”
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