His monied-minders, throughout this past eight years, watch with glee from afar. Instead of parental chiding for not understanding the hows and whys of the political process, he advocates a brand of anti-American not-so-civil disobedience. Like some bad dream, I see the revolutionary Obama at the head of the dinner table as head of a household of millennials. There is no Andy Taylor at home, much less an Aunt Bea. Of course, the only ones to blame (in general terms) are Boomer and early Gen-X parents. Babies learn quickly how to get what they want and that’s not lost on a generation that has been given Get-Out-of-Jail-Fee cards for several decades-now, to be followed up with Obama’s Get-Out-of-Student-Debt-Free cards. Tantrums take on many shades of expression that begin with children’s attention getters that escalate into more shenanigans, that do nothing more than hide evil intent. Needless to say, Andy threatens to take away Opie’s allowance and suggests he think about it while telling him to return to clean out the garage. Opie innocently sits up and says, “I’m throwin’ a tantrum.” Andy looks up from his paperwork and asks, “What are you doing now?” When Opie sees his tricks falling on deaf ears, he throws himself to the floor, kicking and screaming. Opie interrupts his breath holding and says, “I’m turnin’ blue.” “What are you doing?” asks Andy, as he looks back down at his desk work. When Andy refuses to give in to Opie’s demands for an allowance raise up front and tells him to get back to his garage-cleaning chores, Opie inflates his cheeks and tries to turn blue. He’ll try these antics down at the courthouse. By now, Opie is convinced he’s got a sure-fire plan to get his new bike without working for it. Abruptly quitting the charade he adds, “And if that doesn’t work, I get on the floor and kick and scream.” He shows off his center-piece of desperation. Opie’s eyes widen and his brow furrows, as Arnold’s face begins to turn red. “If that doesn’t work, I hold my breath till my face starts to turn blue.” Arnold demonstrates. “See what I mean, Taylor?” explains a smiling, spoiled brat Arnold. Processing that thought, he scrunches up his nose and asks innocently, “What’s a tantrum?”Īrnold immediately bursts into crocodile tears and Opie runs over to console Arnold who stops crying and grins. “Gosh, says Opie, eyes widening to the excitement of a strange solution to his problem. “Well, what am I supposed to do?” inquired Opie. “You give up too easily Taylor,” said Arnold, devilishly. Opie knew it would take a decade of allowance-saving to get a bike like that, so he expressed defeat. “I wish I could get one of these,” he demurred, covered in garage dirt and grime. Opie was cleaning out the garage for his allowance when Arnold peddled up the driveway to show off his new bike. When a new kid named Arnold Winkler moved to Mayberry, Opie got an education in how to throw a tantrum to get what he wanted. Opie Taylor, Andy Griffith’s TV son of the much beloved Andy Griffith Show, was impressionable and inquisitive. As I watched the anti-Trump marchers lining up with their placards that read, “Not my president,” I was reminded of a particular episode of a childhood TV program. As if eight years of Obama wasn’t enough. We have already endured vote recounts, spear-headed by Green Party loser Jill Stein, heard the calls to abolish Article Two’s United States Electoral College to killing the 22nd Amendment that limits a president to two terms in office, a total of eight years. I offer that “fake news”, a Russian hacking intervention, the FBI’s James Comey, etc., are nothing more than liberal red herrings, a darting, predatory collective imagination looking to scorch the earth of American conservative thought, played out in the only way they know how at this point in time-a child’s tantrum. It’s as though nobody has ever seen The National Enquirer, Daily Star or The New York Times. After this national election, we have been hearing about “fake news” and how it has played a part in the defeat of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency.
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