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The Wind's Twelve Quarters? LeGuin Story collection. One is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rule_of_Names Look what happens if on skip to use the alias ...
So... a supposedly incompetent wizard turns out against expectations to be the dragon his opponent thought he was- or did he, if he believed an enchantment to lock Underhill into original form was a smart move?!
Lots of ways to connect that to US politics, but probably time to say "interested that MS has open sourced Jet Blue, little impact on me personally, and I wish they'd do the same with VFP."
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
