Some day the wolf will be real, but no one will listen.

[DavidDvorkin]

[True Dough]

1. Say what???

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Aesop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf

[Demtexan]

3. The Boy Who Called Wolf.

I wonder if kids still learn about this in school.

[No Vested Interest]

4. It would be good if Mom and Dad read such stories to their children.

Regularly.

[TexasProgresive]

6. Those stories use to be learned at home.

I don't think the parents even know them much less the kids. I have tried to use the metaphor, Midas' touch with middle school kids and they just have deer in the headlights eyes. Having to explain it makes the lesson weak. So I have learned to not take it for granted that kids know anything that was formerly in the common knowledge.

[Tipperary]

10. I find that a real shame. My parents both read and told stories to me when I was a child.

Bedtime was always story time. This is a real loss to children. I guess they just give them an iPad now. It makes me sad.

[pnwmom]

5. It's ALREADY real, and howling, and in the White House -- and not enough people are listening. /t

[Va Lefty]

7. Spot on!

[DavidDvorkin]

8. My post refers to the claims of major upcoming news

That never pan out. The people making those claims are the ones crying wolf. When they have something real, the risk is that they will be ignored.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf -- one of Aesop's fables.

[Demtexan]

11. I seem to remember a Rockie and Bullwinkle cartoon about this.

We did learn a lot watching that cartoon.

[FreepFryer]

9. We see, hear and smell the wolf - soon, with our votes, we will touch him. (n/t)