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What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - JaneRLange - 01-26-2011
Metaphor, analogy, allegory, they're very similar. What is the best metaphor for american politics that you can think of? 10 points for most clever.
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - CharlotteBMartinez - 01-27-2011
A large rectum that pulls in instead of out.
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - ShortforDionysus - 01-27-2011
A large troop of howler monkeys throwing poo at each other.
I think that is probably the best metaphor for Congress.
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - JamesABixby - 01-27-2011
Politics are like Root canals. It's a painful process of tearing out what's inside and replacing it with fake material, all to desensitize the nerves.
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - JohnLDehaven - 01-27-2011
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. --- Don Luchesi, Godfather III
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - JoshuaLHollars - 01-27-2011
philosophy
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - ArianaRBanach - 01-27-2011
Joe the Plumber.
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - CarlosJBourne - 01-27-2011
A car.
The liberals are the gas pedal. Without the gas pedal, we'd never go anywhere.
The conservatives are the brake pedal. Without the brake pedal we'd go forward recklessly off a cliff.
Both are necessary, even each side doesn't think they need to use the other.
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - TiffanyJChen - 01-27-2011
a pig orgy?
a bunch of power hungry folks screwing each other over in the mud...
it's very messy and you don't want to be a part of it... but occasionally, something good comes out of it...
bacon... pork chops...
Re: What is the best metaphor for politics you can think of? - NancyDStrauss - 01-27-2011
Disneyland