Feeding Fascism

As a child we were taught to appreciate our freedom. I can remember whining incessantly about something irrelevant. My mom who was a school teacher looked at me discerningly and said, “oh stop your whining, things could be a lot worse, we could be living in a fascist regime”. Given the times we are living in her words resonate today more than they did at the time she said them. I never thought I’d live to see the day the United States elected a full on fascist. But here we are.

Which brings to Laura Joffe Numeroff’s book If You Give A Mouse A Cookie.

A boy gives a cookie to a mouse, Frank. The mouse then asks for a glass of milk. He goes on to request a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (because he wants to trim his hair using the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings). Next, he has the boy give him a blanket to take a nap, read him a story, give him crayons and paper so he can draw a picture, and then hang the picture on the refrigerator. Looking at the refrigerator makes him thirsty, so the mouse asks for a second glass of milk. The circle is complete when he wants a cookie to go with it.

Fast forward to Trump. Recently Stephen Colbert was fired, now Jimmy Kimmel, he is threatening first amendment free speech rights at will. If you give a mouse a cookie he’ll only want more.

The corporate media has bent their knee to this fascist and it’s only gonna get worse. I don’t think these network heads realize the backlash they are about to get. Disney and Hulu subscriptions are being canceled. I for one have canceled mine Paramount plus is next. We pay good money for these subscriptions (they don’t come cheap) so why should we continue to fund these billionaires who run networks so they can feed the fascism, brave soldiers fought and lost their lives to give us and now be disrespected by a no nothing wannabe dictator. The relevance of Laura’s book has come true. They’ve fed the mouse his cookie he’s only going to come for more. Once these network executives go down on one knee to appease the orange man they’ll be down on both knees in very short order, unless they decide to stop feeding this mouse the cookie.