(This topic is just too timely to hold for next month, so here is a second November Metaphor Minute.)
What do an obituary, an election, and a newspaper have to do with the perfect metaphor? Let me begin with the obituary…
The election is next week and all this campaigning will (finally!) be over. At rallies across the country, candidates and their allies are doubling down on why you should vote for them or for the candidate they are supporting. The messages are mind-numbingly the same: the opposing candidate is incompetent or worse and and only our candidate is your best choice. Political-speak over and over again, falling on battered, deaf ears.
But at least one speaker made the news last week with a different tack, framing a candidate’s incompetence in memorable metaphoric terms to help voters really hear and ”see” the danger of electing that guy.