Howard Shotts
Stover
Dear Editor:
The fable:
(Then:) The ant works hard in the oppressive heat all summer long, building his house, finding food and storing it for the long cold winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant to be a fool, laughs at his efforts and plays and dances the summer away. Winter comes, the ant is warm and well feed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter and dies in the cold. Moral -- Hard work has its reward.
(Now:) The ant works hard in the oppressive heat all summer long, building his house, finding food and storing it for the long cold winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant to be a fool, laughs at his efforts and plays and dances the summer away. Winter comes, the ant has shelter and food. The grasshopper, having neither, calls a press conference, demanding to know why the ant should be warm and well feed while others are cold and starving.
Press arrives to film the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant inside his warm home with a table of food. America is shocked at the stark difference between the their conditions.
Kermit the frog appears on The View with the grasshopper, and all cry when they sing, "It's not easy being green."
The speaker of the house introduces a bill calling for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
SEIU and ANTIFIA demonstrate in front of the ant's house, singing, "We shall overcome," while the press films.
EEOC drafts an Act, which all Democrats support, forcing the ant to pay, retroactively, fines for not hiring the right bugs to help with the harvest. Unable to pay, his house is foreclosed on by the government.
As we fade from the story, the grasshopper is consuming the last bits of the ant's food, in government housing, which happens to be the ant's old house, as the ant disappears into the snow. Moral: Liberal press is more important than hard work.
Sometimes, fables get so close to the truth that it becomes difficult to tell them from real life.