As a metaphor, a dog riding on a pony doesn't quite capture the flavour of the times for me.
So how about:
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As a metaphor, a dog riding on a pony doesn't quite capture the flavour of the times for me.
So how about:
The establishment not only let him in but at times appeared to let him run roughshod over it. Now maybe the message will be once and for all, “No more outsiders! This dog and pony show is sewn up, is a racket, knows best and for good reason: Trump (and all those other clowns like Giuliani and and Q ... and Q Shaman). “ I think of that photo though of all those grinning Republican elites with a grinning Trump in the middle when a day before they appeared to be against Trump. He signed something or other that did a presto-change-o-you-rich-ghouls-just-got much-richer-because-of-ME looked like.
Do people in England use the words “stand” and ”stood” instead of the US “run” and “ran?”
Maybe, maybe not. It's interesting that folks like Assange & Greenwald were certain that Hillary Clinton would win against Trump in 2016, claiming that the establishment wouldn't let Trump win. But I like Sanders a lot - tragic that he never ran.
The rich may get richer whoever is in power. But the badly-off don't fare the same - they fare very differently. That could not be clearer. And there's a massive difference on urgent issues like environment & pandemics. Trump didn't even think those were issues!
I have a lot of time for criticisms of Dem policy, "DC establishment", aloof "elites", etc - and I liked the policies of Sanders in US and Corbyn in UK. But I have no time for those who say "they're all the same", based on moral comparisons of corruption versus honesty. Of course they're all dishonest & corrupt - politics at that level is a corrupting game. That's why Steve Bannon, the Kochs, the Mercers, all the other hard-right billionaires want the media to frame things in moral terms - "crooked Hillary", "Biden crime family", etc. On that level of debate, they all seem equally bad, and the faux middle-class revolutionaries and privileged nihilist young men, in their moral disgust at Hillary & Co, nudge voting in favour of the right, and we end up with Trump (and Boris fucking Johnson in the UK). But luckily this time around in the US, as many people have commented, it looks as if the black community has "saved America's ass" by overwhelmingly voting to get rid of Trump.
Democracy isn't about perfection or moral purity, but I like to think it does make a difference, albeit gradually and with set-backs. I mean, if we're not interested in social justice at this level, then consider the alternative.
Right, but then moral purity was never an expectation either way. The difference between Dems and Repubs may seem small to some, but one sees terrible consequences when those in power believe in lunatic conspiracy theories. And the worst-off are usually the hardest hit.
I'm not sure what's going on with the pony here - but in any case, I think you'll agree these are better metaphors than a dog & pony show.