American-Israeli politics explained to a five year old
Once Upon a Time, there was a big strong Giant (USA) who befriended a little gnome (Israel). The little gnome was new to the forest, and there were a lot of creatures that wanted to eat it. The creatures also didn’t like the Giant, but the Giant and the creatures were too far away from each other to seriously hurt each other. Then the Giant saw the creatures picking on the little gnome, and decided that helping the gnome would be to both of their advantage. With the Giant’s help, the little gnome was constantly beating his former bullies. Finally, the gnome became powerful enough to start bullying some of the other creatures, which had once bullied him.
And there lies the problem for the giant, kids. The Giant wants the little gnome to succeed, but he is also afraid that the gnome has become a bully too, and so he feels that the bullying must be stopped. The political parties in the united states are sort of similar to the Giant. The Republican Party remembers that the Gnome was the Giant’s friend from the very beginning, and was acting as the Giant wanted when the gnome first came into the forest. The Democrat Party believes that bullying is not okay even if our friends do it, and think that while the Gnome may be the Giant’s friend, the Giant needs to tell the gnome to calm down and not be so mean to the other forest creatures.
