North Wind aka Leftist Media and the Sun

Who would have known that Aesop’s Fables have relevance even today?

Even stranger that one of them could have predicted that the election would go Trump’s way

The fable is the North Wind and the Sun

A fierce contest to see who would make a traveler his coat shun

Image the metaphor of the traveler being a voter on his way to the polls

After months of campaigning and negative ads that took their toll

Image the metaphor of the North Wind being the leftist main stream press

Who more than anything wanted to crown Hillary and Trump’s chances suppress

In metaphor terms the coat was the vote for Trump

Which the media wanted the voter not to dump

The press 24/7 ravaged Trump calling into question his temperament not trusted with the nuclear codes

Trying to bait him, trying to into anger lashing out goad

Leaking debate questions to the Clinton camp

Any support for Trump with inflated Clinton poll numbers to try to damp

Like the North Wind that blew harder and harder against the traveler on the trail

Only caused him to hold on tighter so the effort was doomed to fail

And in metaphor land what was the Sun?

The simple messages of make America great again and the swamp drain

Coupled with “crooked Hillary”, job creation, secure borders, tax cuts again and again on the campaign

The groping allegations from years past, tweeting the Khans, and the Miss Piggy distraction were like the clouds that blotted out the Sun

But as the campaign came to its end, the clouds cleared and the coat was removed but kept folded over his arm  and the Sun had won

Hillary had no record with the albatross of dishonesty, paranoia, and pay to play corruption hanging around her neck

The voters like the traveler saw through the media attacks and on Election Day they wisely chose to Hillary reject

Thanks Aesop for making this election so very clear

Let us unite and pray Trump’s record ahead will give us cause to cheer

© November 23, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 

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