Once upon a time Part II

7/28/18

Once upon a time there were two groups of peacefully coexisting peoples.

What?! You think this is a fairy tale.

One group, the Magenta’s were just the tinniest little bit more outspoken than the Sky Blues. They had a few more pennies. Maybe that was the reason. Their confidence grew. It is quite true. Into the blue their egos built rising faster and faster full tilt.

Over time the population enlarging, marginalizing, they formed a town council to decide what they had to do for the general good of the community and brother and sisterhood.

The way the people voted for their council members was at first on paper ballots. No big deal. Until the results were unsealed.

As the community grew, the Magentas, who were just a little bit more clever than the Sky Blues, the Magentas began to wonder if they could improve their odds at the ballot box. One pretty, smart young corporate fox in one of their Magenta districts they hired a computer expert to make sure the election was fair. Fair to the Magentas that is. This company gained lots of experience and with their simulation software noticed that if they redrew the districts the Magentas would almost always win. But not always. So they hired a strategist who said “People care about fairness. Let’s tell them there are some people voting twice and there are some folks who are no longer living still on the voter registration rolls. That’s not right. That’s not fair.” “Sure isn’t fair. Sure isn’t right,” agreed the crowds. “So what are we going to do about it? We’re going to clean up those voter registration rolls. Of course if we happen to accidentally delete a few Sky Blues, that’s no big deal it doesn’t change what we know is right.”  Still once in a while a Sky Blue was elected. So those clever Magentas, you know what they did? They said “There are still some Blues sneaking in. Messing things up for us honest folks”

“Oh no,” said the crowds of Magentas. 

“We‘ll take care of that. We’ll just have ID checks at the polls where these nasty, sneaky Blues are deceiving. And if they don’t, my second amendment people will know what to do- they’ve got the guns; my Russo-buddies control social media propaganda, the real news is controlled by my foxy friends…”

Society should have been grieving.