“Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you.”

It’s a cold January morning, 2017, in the nation’s capital.

The new president is up early, sitting in the Oval Office. A secretary enters. “Mr. President, the former president is on the red phone.” “Good morning, Barack,” he says. “I thought you would be sleeping in after the inaugural.”

“Not today, Bernie, not on the greatest day for America since my election. I said eight years ago that I would change America, now I have you to complete the job,” Barack Obama says.

President Bernie Sanders responds, “I will be forever grateful for the help you and all the progressive liberals gave me in dispatching those centrist Clintons. Now we can get on with the transformation of America.”

“What are you going to tackle first?” Obama asks.

“In keeping with your example, I plan to immediately start issuing executive orders. I’m anxious to learn from you if there is a chronological order of importance in your mind,” Bernie says.

The former president, in a solemn, intense tone, “That is up to you, President Sanders, the important thing is that you are now in position to complete the job that I started in transforming our nation into a country where the most successful among us no longer control anything. As your winning platform promised, the nation now will tax, at 90 percent, those who have the wealth. Keep your promise (and mine) that America will never be the same. Redistribution of all assets should begin immediately. The haves will share their wealth with the have-nots.”

“That’s right, Barack. As president, I will not only redistribute this nation’s great wealth, I will also create income equality for everybody. In our new social order, equality reigns supreme. Most CEOs and business owners are pigs at the trough, led by Wall Street and the bankers. We’re going to nail them,” he adds.

“Once we succeed in dividing the spoils equally, we will grant complete amnesty to all immigrants, including illegals, and the borders will be wide open to everyone — that is the American way,” the new president continues.

“And, never again will this great nation send our men and women of the armed services to foreign lands to interfere with what is none of our business. I want no more wars; let other countries take care of themselves — they can handle ISIS — it is a regional problem between religious sects. I agree that the Muslim Quran poses no particular threat to us, and we must make it clear to the world that America is in no position to tell others what they should believe in or do, certainly not with our record. We should be apologizing — not seeking a role in places where we don’t belong.

“It is also time to kill the unpatriotic ‘Patriot Act,’ which doesn’t help protect us, it is simply an invasion of our privacies.”

Obama muses, “That’s right, Bernie, and while you are at it, it’s time to put the finishing touches on the secularization of America. People are sick and tired of our churches interfering in politics by questioning abortion and gay marriage. Who appointed them as our moral leaders, anyway?

“It’s time to take non-profit tax status away from churches and to silence them once and for all with new rules on religion in America.”

President Sanders sums up, “Now is the time to finish our work on the creation of a new America. Government is the people’s greatest hope, a collective socialism like many other countries have is what the citizens want, not an archaic capitalistic system that rewards only the successful, and leaves everybody else behind.”

The former president closes with, “Congratulations again, Bernie, and give my regards to Vice President Bill DeBlasio, who certainly made a name for himself in New York with the drug addicts, homeless and minorities vs. the police. He’ll do a fine job as veep.”

“I will convey your best wishes, Barack, and I want to thank you for your recommendation of the Rev. Al Sharpton as secretary of state. We are also working on clearing up Elizabeth Warren’s law license so she can serve as attorney general.

“A new day is here, Mr. President, Americans will finally get everything they are entitled to,” President Sanders concludes.

Note: More than 7,500 people turned out in Portland recently to hear Sanders, Vermont’s independent senator.

Don Roberts, a former city councilor and former vice chairman of the Charter Commission in Augusta, is a trustee of the Greater Augusta Utility District.