A Fairy Tale

Once upon a time in a land of snow and ice and water and lakes and nice people, called Gulliblesota, there was an election to see who would rule this beautiful land. On one side was a party called the Daytoncrats and the other side was the Grandoldcrans. Well, these two parties started telling fairy tales to the Gulliblesotans, one side talked about bigger government, more taxes, but a better way of life and balancing the budget. They also promised not to shut the State of Gulliblesota down. The other side, the Grandoldcrans, talked about lowering taxes, improving health care and performing a God like miracle, balancing the budget with no new revenue. And do you know what? The Gulliblesotans believed both parties and so they elected a Daytoncrat as there leader and whole bunch of Grandoldcrans to represent them. But, the poor Gullileblesotans didn't know that both sides had lied to them.

Neither side intended to keep there promises. The Daytoncrats didn't talk to the Grandoldcrans and the Grandoldcrans called the Daytoncrats names and both sides went to there rooms and cried a lot. But the Granoldcrans had more people so they decided to pass laws whether the people liked them or not. So they first picked on the gay people and passed a bill so that the happy gay people could never be a family and then they passed a law telling Gulliblesotans they couldn't vote unless they bought a picture ID from the Grandoldcrans. Even though poll taxes are illegal the Granoldcrans didn't care. The Daytoncrats in the meantime still did nothing, except start calling Granoldcrans bad names. That is how it went for  along time with both sides calling each other names and nobody doing anything.

After months of both sides doing nothing and not listening to the Gulliblesotans, it came time for them to go home. So the leader of the Grandoldcrans, took this big wooden hammer and pounded it on a desk, said something no one could understand and they went home. All except one poor Grandoldcran whose wooden leg wouldn't work, but they left him sit there by himself. The leader of the Grandoldcrans didn't like him, even though he was hero, because he told the Grandoldcrans they were wrong for picking on the gays. Finally, a Gulliblesotan came along and fixed his wooden leg and he was able to go home to his wife and children. 

But, that is not the end of the fairy tale, because the budget wasn't balanced and the state was going to shut down, which the Granoldcrans claimed was the Daytoncrats fault. So for weeks they each stood at a line in the sand and called each other names and did nothing. The Daytoncrats decided to let the State of Gulliblesota shutdown. The Grandoldcrans started showing old movies of the leader of the Daytoncrats telling people he would not shutdown the state, and the Grandoldcrans called him more names, but did nothing. Finally, the leader of the law of the State of Gulliblesota went to court to keep the state from shutting down.

It was then that the Grandoldcrans did something. They proved they had lied to the whole State of Gulliblesota, and went to a higher court to shut the state down and keep the people of Gulliblesota from getting what is rightly theirs.

To be continued.