But the Cinderella in the fairy tale never lost her
humility and her goodness once she caught her prince
I am bringing this up in this post because a
relative of one of my daughters made a very poignant and disturbing comment to one of
them: “Oh, that Obama guy, we have to get rid of him”
The first thing that
comes to my mind is that both her mother and father were immigrants, her dad
waited on tables while her mother worked in a factory. She went on to college
and became a teacher but soon she had to give that up because of the low
salary, the large class sizes and the dismal working conditions.
Now she has a lofty
job, one that pays her three figures and I rejoice for her in that fact but to
betray her mother and father and the very people she is still part of is
reprehensible.
I too have a relative
who was the daughter of immigrants, her father sold newspapers in the New York
subway for a living while her mom worked as a seamstress. She married a high
school sweetheart and had a child. He was sent off to war and came back a
basket case as well as hooked on drugs. She divorced him and then tried to
raise her child as a single mom. It wasn’t easy, I am certain.
That ended when she
met a wealthy client of the firm she worked for and he fell madly in love with
her. They married and she gave him a daughter. All that is a wonderful
Cinderella story up until this point.
You see, her hubby is
a Wall Street speculator, one of those vulture capitalists who doesn’t give a
shit about the little people and my relative has now become just like him and
proudly announces her membership in the Republican Party…because “the slovenly
slobs don’t know how it works, they just don’t understand and are incapable of
governing themselves”
So it is off to the
Hamptons with them to attend one of Mitt Romney’s fundraisers…I don’t know
which nor do I give a shit, but I would like for her to look back and remember
where she came from.
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