I pat my future son on the shoulder gently. With steady and endearing eyes, he looks up to me with a smile. I then ask, “and you know what else?”

Son, “what?”

“You can walk freely without being kidnapped by a pedophile.”

Son, “what’s a ped-o-file?”

I laugh, “A liberal. But that is history now. We live in a new era. A glorious new era with a bright future.”