Analogies are to serious debate like popcorn is to a Thanksgiving dinner. It’s quick and easy, but never as satisfying. The only way analogies are helpful in political debate is that they can make sometimes-abstract ideas easier to understand, but only for those willing to understand. Those determined to be contrary will quickly point out how the analogy fails, so you first have to know your audience, and then understand the issue well enough so that you can construct a reasonable analogy. Let’s try one.

Say you and the wife and baby are living in a nice little two-bedroom apartment. You fixed it up a bit to suit yourself; it’s warm and dry and safe and, besides, it’s all you can afford right now. Now the sheriff shows up and tells you that you have to move out, that this building is condemned, but that he has a new house picked out for you. Of course there is no way that you can afford the payments on this new place, not to mention that the floor creaks and the roof leaks and, because of the leak, there’s probably black mold all through the house that will be dangerous to the health of your baby.

You complain, loudly, and the sheriff, knowing he has an election coming up, says, “tell you what I’m going to do: you don’t have to move in until next year”! So, next year you still won’t be able to afford it, it still won’t be what you want, and it’s still going to be harmful to you and your family. Not only that, where are you going to live between now and then? See more articles in the following blog site.

I’m trying to draw an analogy here with Obama’s [illegal] “postponement” of the worst features of Obamacare (approximately all of them). If Obamacare is so awful that it is indefensible in an election year, why is it not equally awful and indefensible next year? If the damage has already been done, how is postponing the supposed “fix” even remotely desirable? With the analogy raising questions like these I am starting to think that rational debate is not going to be possible. It ought to be unnecessary.

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