I've been reading up on Angolan folk tales lately. One suits the occasion of recent U.S. politics quite well:
A hunter named Nianga took up his gun, saying "I will go hunting!" He went into the bush, but after several days still finds no game. "I will go home," he declares.
On arriving home, Nianga finds Leopard, stuck in the fork of a tree.
On seeing the returning hunter, Leopard cries "Father Nianga. help me out!"
Nianga asks, "Who has done this to thee?"
Leopard replies, "Unfork me first; I shall tell thee." Nianga takes him out of the tree and sets him on the ground.
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"Elephant has stuck me up in the fork of the tree."
Now, Nianga as a child had been taught of Elephant's wisdom and high place amongst the animals.
But Leopard did not give him time to remember his lessons. He said "Sir, to whom one has given life, one gives more. I have been two days on the tree; give me a little food."
Nianga frowns. He had returned from hunting empty-handed. "Where shall I find food?"
Leopard looked over at Nianga's two dogs. "Anywhere." Nianga takes up one dog and gives it to Leopard. Leopard eats it and says "I am not satisfied." Nianga gives him the other dog also; Leopard eats and says again "Still, I have not had enough." Leopard sniffed at Nianga's cartridge-box. Nianga gave it to him. Leopard ate it as well, saying "Still, I have not had enough."
[NOTE: Cartridges here are rolled paper packets slathered in grease to protect the gunpowder charges inside them against the elements.]
At that moment, Hare hopped by. He asks Nianga "Why are you quarreling?"
Nianga says "Leopard, I found him in the fork of the tree. Says he, 'Take me out!'. I took him out. Says he, 'Give me something to eat!' I give him both my dogs and my cartridge-box. He says now 'Give me more to eat!' That is what we are quarreling about."
Hare looks around. "Which tree?"
Nianga and the Leopard look at each other. There is only one tree. "This one!" They both say at once.
Hare says "Really? This tree looks much too weak to bear Leopard's weight."
"Truth!" Leopard roars.
"Then let Leopard be again on the tree, where he was, so I may see."
Leopard pads over to the tree, climbs up it easily, and settles into the nook easily, just as he was before Nianga returned home.
Hare moves off a distance and calls Nianga to him. He paws at a cartridge on the ground. Nianga, seeing it is his, picks it up.
Hare says "Nianga, thou art unwise! Leopard is a wild beast, he is wont to catch people. Thee, who didst get him out of his troubles, he demanded you feed him first your friends, then your strength. Now he plans to devour thee! Defend yourself!"
Nianga shoots Leopard.
Good or bad, this is how the story ends.
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Sound familiar yet?