The key is to be sneaky, I think, until you’re an institution like Dr. Seuss became. He made his publishers money, had a wide readership to whom he was as much a fixture as the Bible, and then he decided he could risk some blatantly political stuff. Chronology of publications will probably bear this out, but I haven’t studied it. Just idle pontification by yours truly.
So here’s an experiment, in case we ever get as established as Dr. Seuss in kiddy lit: Let’s write a rhyming kiddy book exposing fake moral equivalencies in the Palestinial/Israeli conflict. Heheheh.
Mother UN had two bad sons who constantly were fighting
The first bad son had a garden plot where oranges grew and flowers, too
The second one would cry “No fair! He stole from me!” to Mother UN
And threw rocks and stones at the first bad son, who bled from his head.
He’d work that plot, whether stolen or not, though Mother UN would scold and fume
While the flowers bloomed, and the oranges ripened into gold.
Someone continue, please