Is anyone else tired of liberals crying wolf?
We’ve all heard of Aesop’s fable of the boy who cried wolf. As the tale goes, a young boy cried wolf, alarming the people of the village who came running to protect their flocks. It was a lark and the boy laughed at their panic.
Enjoying himself, he cried wolf a second time, and once again the villagers rushed out to the field only to see the boy laughing at them. Then a real wolf came, but when he cried “Wolf!” the third time no one believed him, and the boy became wolf food.
On its face, the fable of the boy who cried wolf is about trust, truthfulness and loyalty. But I imagine that somewhere in the backstory is a negative example that led the fictional boy to believe he could lie for effect and get away with it. The boy was wrong, he knew