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America: Democracy Traded for Eggs?
The Economy Played a Role in the U.S. Presidential Election, But It Wasn’t the Driving Force of the Results
The story of Humpty Dumpty — this fragile, ill-fated character — goes deeper than the nursery rhyme lets on. It’s a tale wrapped in the very bones of a nation that has always teetered on the edge of something great and something broken.
You see, Humpty Dumpty wasn’t always just a clumsy egg. He once symbolized the fragile nature of power itself. The image of Humpty sitting high upon the wall — the precarious perch of privilege, authority, and arrogance — wasn’t lost on those who saw in him the fragile balance of empires, of systems built on inequality.
When he falls, the pieces don’t just scatter — they shatter, irreparably. And no one, not all the king’s horses nor all the king’s men, can put him back together again. It’s a lesson about the fallibility of those who believe they are untouchable, perched above the rest, certain of their invincibility.
The story is a mirror to a nation, to every empire that has believed itself immune to the weight of its own contradictions, to the truth of its own brokenness.
The fall of Humpty Dumpty reminds us: power, once toppled, does not simply return to its previous…
