I imagine it’s difficult to come up with compelling rhetoric for every presidential declaration, but Friday’s proclamation from the White House in honor of “National Child’s Day” included one of those sentiments thought should be banned from our discourse forever.
“Children are the future of our country and America’s next generation of leaders.”
Really, the children are the future? The next thing you’ll tell me is that is that if we teach them well, we can let them lead the way. We might also consider showing them all the beauty they possess inside.
It reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons a few years back in which Skinner introduces the children of Springfield Elementary to sing a song they called, “The Children Are Our Future.” The lyrics went like this:
Children, children, future, future.
Are you ready for the children.
The future is coming.
Children, children, children are the future.
It prompted Homer to say, “I’ve never wanted a beer worse in my life.”