Aesop Predicted The Political Race

Clinton wins in Pennsylvania. The following little known Aesop fable tells an eerie tale. I just wish there were a few more paragraphs so we could know what's coming.


The Three Sellers

A Barbary young man and a woman of full years came to the marketplace. They came to sell their wares. Each expected great success. In the beginning they took little notice of each other. Their wares were on opposite sides of the market crowded with sellers.

As time passed many other sellers stopped selling, left the market and did not return. There was a third man also had wares to sell. He was an old decrepit man with inferior goods. It seemed his chances for riches were nil.

As time passed the Barbary young man and the woman of full years began eying each other with ill will. They paid little mind to the old decrepit man and his poor wares. As their places were far apart they took to pleading and then yelling and then still later screaming that the other was a fake, a charlatan,and not to be trusted. Each day brought further outrageousness.

At first customers of the marketplace at first were bemused by the antics of the Barbary young man and the woman of full years. Customers began to make their decisions based not on the wares, but on appearances.

Customers began to forget that a wormy apple or crumbly dish is worse than an entertaining performance. Suddenly the statements reached a shrill tone. The woman of full years knew her business was in danger. She consulted doctors of spin. They looked at their witch bones and told her to make outrageous and bold statements about a country with a four letter name and the atom. She did so. The customers were startled by the proclamation. Her business did not fold.

Meanwhile the old man looked on and smiled. He said little and noticed the number of his goods sold was increasing.