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By Angela Kelley, American Greatness, March 15, 2021

Angela Kelley is the Director of Operations for American Majority. She has an extensive professional background in higher education and program management. She loves politics and genealogy and is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

 

In Hans Christian Anderson’s tale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” swindlers come to town to make the emperor clothing that only smart and competent people can actually see. They tell his subjects that if they are stupid or ignorant, they will be unable to see the beautiful and expensive clothing the emperor wears.

Regular people in the town flood the streets to see the parade with the emperor in his lovely new clothes, only they can’t see the clothing because it’s not actually there. It’s not until a child, unaware of the admonition, blurts out the truth that the villagers can admit they don’t see anything, either. The emperor is actually naked but their fear of being thought stupid actually made them fools.  …