"Cult" is a very apt term.
-- Mike Hammett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2025 11:49:22 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Political We should stop calling them =E2=80=9Cparties=E2=80=9D because none of them = are much fun. Elephant and donkey are apt symbols.=20 Whatever happened to that guy Vermin Supreme?=20 From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected]=20 Sent: Monday, May 26, 2025 11:35 AM=20 To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>=20 Subject: [AFMUG] OT Political=20 Hmmmm=E2=80=A6..=20 By SHANE GOLDMACHER The New York Times=20 One longtime Democratic researcher has a technique she leans on when nudgin= g voters to share their deepest, darkest feelings about politics. She asks = them to compare America's two major parties to animals.=20 After around 250 focus groups of swing voters, a few patterns have emerged,= said the researcher, Anat Shenker-Osorio. Republicans are seen as "apex pr= edators," like lions, tigers and sharks =E2=80=94 beasts that take what the= y want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slug= s or sloths: slow, plodding, passive.=20 So Shenker-Osorio perked up earlier this year when a Democratic man in Geor= gia suggested that a very different kind of animal symbolized his party.=20 "A deer," he said, "in headlights."=20 The man had more to say.=20 "You stand there and you see the car coming, but you're going to stand ther= e and get hit with it anyway."=20 --=20 AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
