The following is the story of the three bears and the older woman and man.  While reading this story, it reminds me of the current campaign.  We have a little small bear, who we will call Ted Cruz, the middle-sized bear who we will call, Marco Rubio, and the Great, Huge Bear, who we will call Donald Trump –  and  then we have the older woman who we will call Hillary Clinton  and the older man who we will call Bernie Sanders- all fighting for the top prize.

In Southey’s tale, three anthropomorphic bears – “a Little, Small, Wee Bear, a Middle-sized Bear, and a Great, Huge Bear” – live together in a house in the woods. Southey describes them as very good-natured, trusting, harmless, tidy, and hospitable. Each of these  bears has his own porridge bowl, chair, and bed. One day they take a walk in the woods while their porridge cools.

A woman approaches the bears’ house. As is sent out by her family as she is a disgrace to them.She is described at various points in the story as impudent, bad, foul-mouthed, ugly, dirty and a vagrant deserving of a stint in the House of Correction. She looks through a window, peeps through the keyhole, and lifts the latch.

Assured that no one is home, she walks in. The old woman eats the Wee Bear’s porridge, then settles into his chair and breaks it. Prowling about, she finds the bears’ beds and falls asleep in Wee Bear’s bed. The climax of the tale is reached when the bears return. Wee Bear finds the old woman in his bed and cries, “Somebody has been lying in my bed, – and here she is!” The old woman starts up, jumps from the window , and runs away never to be seen again.  .

Oh, if it were only true – never to be seen again!

As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, we could not find a place for him in this story because he is not a Democrat or Republican but a Communist and those people live in Russia and Cuba.  Do these young people who are backing him really know what the politics of communism is all about?

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