Dr. Seuss Understood: At the Bottom We Too Should Have Rights

The thing I admire about Dr. Seuss is that he can be read and enjoyed by both children and their parents.  Children love the silly rhymes, the quirky drawings and the story at its most basic level.  Adults get the moral and can marvel at how simplistically Dr. Seuss conveys it to children.  Last night, I was reading Yertle the Turtle to my son.  He thinks Mack, the turtle at the bottom, is really cool and he laughs every time Yertle ends up in the mud.  But he is only four, too young to understand that in this country our family is much like Mack.  The land of the free and the brave has become the land of the politically connected and wealthy.  With big business and the banks cuddling up with the government, we little people don’t stand much of a chance.  No matter how hard we, at the bottom, try to improve our lot, we can’t.  Every time we try to stand up, the wealthy, with the aid of the government, just knock us back down.  It is exhausting and, like Mack, I’m tired of getting stepped on.