Your analogy seems a wee bit strained (or stretched beyond all fucking reason).

From Professor David Michael Green's excellent partial list of reasons why authentic progressives should abandon the failed Dimocrap Party and build an independent populist progressive national movement:

[Source: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/02-1]

"I realized that things could be one helluva lot worse next year if we progressives don't stop whining and if we don't start bucking up, and fast!

Think about it.

We could end up with a government that instantly responds to the five-alarm fire of economic meltdown by bailing out the very Wall Street banks that created the mess, one hundred cents on the dollar, while doing next to nothing for the other ninety-eight percent of us in the middle and working classes.

We could have a government that is populated by proteges of Robert Rubin, the Goldman Sachs wonder boy whose enthusiasm for deregulation while he was Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary has now crashed the global economy.

We could have a government that refuses to seriously reform the deregulatory policies that got us into this crisis. Maybe it would pass a "reform" bill, but you can bet the law wouldn't actually deal with key threats like derivatives. Nor would it separate ordinary banking from market speculation. And it would probably leave us with banks that are more gargantuan than ever, and more ‘too big to fail' than they were in 2008.

We could have a government that doesn't spend any political capital whatsoever on creating temporary jobs to keep people afloat during a crisis, and doesn't even care much about extending their unemployment benefits during the deepest recession since the Great Depression.

We could have a government that runs a mortgage relief program supposedly designed to keep people from losing their houses, but instead leaves sinking homeowners worse off than if they hadn't applied at all.

We could have a government that continues the Bush era legislation that actually gives tax incentives to corporations picking up their manufacturing plants and all the jobs associated with them and exporting everything overseas.

If we don't buck up, we could wind up having the kind of person George W. Bush might pick for running the Pentagon as our Secretary of Defense.

We could find ourselves mired endlessly in some Asian war whose purpose can't even be identified. Heck, if you thought Bush was bad, the next government might go so far as to triple the number of troops in Afghanistan.

Or it might dramatically increase the number of Predator drone attacks being launched against our "ally", Pakistan.

We might get a government that still won't close down Guantánamo.

We could wind up with a government that does nothing (other than to continue to send billions in support) when Israel builds illegal settlements in the West Bank that further damage the prospects for peace in the Middle East.

We might have a government that continues Bush's policy of claiming the "state secrets" privilege in cases involving torture, rendition, or other violations of Constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties even worse than those (see below), asking courts to dismiss them without even hearing any evidence.

We could have a government in which the president actually claims the right to assassinate American citizens.

We could have a government that won't do anything about ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", continuing to dismiss from the military patriots willing to die for their country whose only crime is having a minority sexual preference.

If we're not careful, the next government might actually go to federal court, asking that suits against Clinton's anti-gay "Defense of Marriage" act be blocked from even being heard.

We could have a government that sics the FBI on non-violent anti-war peace organizations, searching their premises and seizing their property on the basis of ridiculous trumped-up charges of abetting terrorism.

We might get ourselves a government that continues to increase "defense" spending, even though the US spends more on its paranoia budget right now than all the other countries of the world combined - all 200 of them - and even though we are currently in a massive fiscal crisis due to egregious over-spending.

We could have a government that would appoint a fiscal commission stacked with appointees focused on denying benefits to American seniors in the name of balancing the budget. This new government might even appoint a lunatic like Alan Simpson as the commission's co-chair, even though he has publicly described Social Security as "a milk cow with 310 million tits".

We could have a government that immediately fires any civil servants who are attacked by Glenn Beck or similar monsters, even when they completely fabricate allegations against those people.

If we're not serious this November, we could get a government that won't do anything about global warming, even while ice caps melt, Russia burns, coral reefs die, and we sweat through the hottest summer ever on record.

We might get a government that would open up huge tracts of environmentally sensitive off-shore zones for oil drilling.

We could have a government that would help to cover up for companies like BP when they wreck the environment.

We could have a government that would let companies like BP be in charge of dealing with a massive oil spill, instead of having government agencies created to serve the public interest handle it.

We could have a government that knows that such federal agencies have been completely captured by the special interests they're supposed to regulate, and yet does nothing about reforming them.

We could get a government that responds to the health care crisis by writing a bill based on a deal it cuts with insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations. Even though these insurance companies add nothing whatsoever to the delivery of health care, and even though they eat up in profit and overhead one out of every three dollars spent for health care, this government could pass legislation forcing forty million Americans to buy their product.

If we don't buck up here, people, we could wind up with a government that refuses to stand up for the public interest and continues to be a shill for Wall Street, corporations and other plutocrats, even foreign ones."

THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM

The fact remains, however, that the kleptocratic rulers in the US, EU, and other debt-burdened countries know exactly what they are doing: to let the recession drag on, to take advantage of the crushing recession in order to extract “enough” concessions from the working people until welfare states are dismantled and labor costs in the more developed capitalist countries are made competitive with those of the less-developed countries. This explains why despite new signs of further global economic contraction, the reigning governments in these countries (whether they are nominally headed by Socialist, Social-Democratic, Labor, Democratic, Conservative or other parties) are maintaining their coordinated abstention from expansive or stimulating fiscal policies while continuing their brutal spending cuts on health, education, wages, pensions, and the like.

This is not to say that these governments do not want to have economic growth or job-creation—they do—but that they want them on their own (Neoliberal) terms, that is, through Neoliberal policies that would create jobs that would pay wages on a par with those of workers in less-developed countries. In other words, they prefer the kind of lopsided economic growth whose fruits would be reaped mostly by the wealthy—the so-called trickle-down or supply-side economic growth. As writer/reporter Patrick O’Connor points out, “In the US, Europe and other advanced capitalist economies, the aim is permanently reducing the living standards of working people.

This is what the Republicans and Democrats are up to. Can you not see it?

Glaring stupid it may look like but you can't ignore public anger forever.

Mom told me years ago: "It's wrong to push someone into a well. But if someone falls into a well, you don't have to pull them out."

Slightly faulty morally, but you get the point.

The empire-heads and greed monkeys are setting themselves up for another trip down the well. This time they stole our grandkids money to float out. but, stay tuned.

Fortify yourselves with alternative ways to weather the storm.