The Cheese Stands Alone

"The Cheese Stands Alone". It's relevance here is not confirmed; I love the line and have been looking for a way to find significance with it. It's the end line of the nursery song Farmer and the Dell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_in_the_Dell

Each character in the rhyme takes something symbolically less powerful in stature than itself as the song progresses, "The farmer takes a wife", "The wife takes a child" "The cat takes a mouse" and so on. The references appear to make each separate character whole by taking something it needs or wants. The taking is a vague reference to owning and in the end the mouse takes the cheese, but then the rhyme ends with "The Cheese Stands Alone". I think of Donald Trump with his yellow hair standing and yelling some nonsense as "The Cheese", as a funny visual reference, but does this song fit into the Democracy Swindle that is currently going on.

As a child this rhyme was harmless and I don't even remember ever thinking of it's meaning. Now I interpret the "taking" as it relates to the primary states with each state individually being owned by some candidate after the primary as how the primary system works. Then each time a candidate in the election wins a primary he/she "takes" that state and owns it. They become whole and the goal of the primaries is to make the Republican and Democratic parties complete, then make the entire country complete through the general election, so that we can be one big happy farm. The "taking" part of the rhyme is relevant because the primary system is designed to somehow encourage the smaller states to be a part of the election process and by emphasizing each state or a few states at a time the broader electorate is able to gain information about the candidates and the other people who support him/her.

This may make me a supporter of the primary system and I may be, but the way the primaries are operated through the parties are not in the spirit of democracy. Specifically the insider control of the primary system is flawed due to the lack of participation by the broader public. If you leave your kid in a room full of candy, then most likely they will eat some of the candy. The Republican and Democratic Party are like kids in a candy store.