Yertle the Turtle? Who knew?

I've been turning the thought of starting a political blog over in my mind for many months. I don't know if I have enough knowledge to share with the masses. I know that I have a hell of a lot of opinions which, I personally, think are great! There are two reasons I have decided to jump in head first to this thing. Well, there are a lot of reasons but the two main reasons are, 1. My daughter, the genius, upon hearing that there were lots of jobs created in the past few years jumped up and down and screamed at me, "I have a future!" and 2. I was reading Yertle the Turtle to my son tonight and I thought it sounded like a damn good thing to blog about. I'll get around to that in a minute! So my daughter is typically the driving force in my life. She is the reason for everything. I know, sounds dramatic but it's so true. I want her to have a future. Will blogging help her to have a future? Short answer is no, but I believe that if I can change even a few minds about some political views she may have a slightly better future then she would have if I did nothing. I will send her to this blog and hope that she knows that I love her and that I have strong opinions and that it's okay for her to have strong opinions too. She is so much smarter than I was at that age so maybe she will change the world if I teach her that it's okay to. Now for my second reason. Dr. Suess, you are one smart bastard!
Here are a few passages that really struck a cord with me:
On the far-away Island of Sala-ma-Sond,
Yertle the Turtle was king of the pond.
A nice little pond. It was clean. It was neat.
The water was warm. There was plenty to eat.
The turtles had everything turtles might need.
And they were all happy. Quite happy indeed.
There were....until Yertle, the king of them all,
Decided the kingdom he ruled was too small.

It goes on to say that Yertle stacked all the turtles of the pond up on top of each other until he could see everything for miles. He was happy until the moon came up and then he wanted to be higher than the moon. A little turtle named Mack was at the bottom of the stack and he was very obviously not happy. The king was upset at the little turtle and tells him:
"You hush up your mouth!" You've no right to talk to the world's highest turtle. I rule the clouds! Over land! Over sea! There's nothing, no NOTHING, that's higher than me!"

The turtle king tries to stack more turtles, but alas, Mack the plain little turtle at the bottom of the stack burps and sends the king flying to the bottom of the pond. Dr. Suess finishes the story with this:
And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

You may be asking yourself right now why in the hell you are reading a political blog that quotes Dr. Suess! I am here to tell you, this story signifies, to me, the 1% (Yertle) and the 99% (Mack and all the other little turtles). You see, the 1% is up there telling us to shut up and sit down. Do your work and we won't crush you and we are going about like little ants trying to make it even under great hardship. We can fight back, the smallest of us. It only takes a small thing to upset the whole system. We all do deserve to be free! Dr. Suess says it better than anyone I have heard talk about this subject in a long time. Please fight back. We have to do more than burp but not much more. Go and vote. Join the Occupy movement or any other movement out there that will get the word out about what we need to do to free ourselves of this plutarchy that we currently live under. If you don't know what plutarchy is, please, Google it! You will very plainly see that is what we have in America, not a democracy as we were supposed to have. I can't say that the fix is an easy one or one that will happen quickly but I can say that anyone reading this can make a difference. Even just by spreading the word. There is a lot of false information out there and I hope to be able to address some of that in my coming blog posts! I hope you enjoy this blog! Thank you for reading!