The great tomato recession

You will perhaps recall The great tomato ideological experiment, in which I planted a hybrid tomato, exemplifying the achievements of free market conservatism, and a heritage tomato, exemplifying traditionalist conservatism, which I turned into a the great tomato parable. The hybrid tomato was far more productive, but the heritage tomato tasted somewhat better.

Well, I must report on what happened next. Shortly after I picked the tomatoes for the taste test, both plants stopped producing. Now BOTH plants are dead! They are both just dry, shriveled up sticks. I have to see this as a parable of the recession in which BOTH kinds of conservatism have failed.

I guess now I will have to embrace liberalism. I will demand that the government just GIVE me tomatoes.