OK, it's obsolete taken literally, but still a valid metaphor.
The media from dead tree to cable news and all points surrounding need to be clickbait (to use a different metaphor).
This is probably why they tend to focus a lot more on identity stuff than tax proposals, education proposals, proposals to support Medicare for All and how to pay for it, the push to raise the minimum wage and proposals to support unions, and all that, you know, progressive stuff.
So Joe Shmo thinks the difference between the two parties is that the Democrats are a national association for the advancement of anybody who isn't white while the Republicans are the opposite.
Instead of that the difference between the two parties is that the Republicans are stooges for selfish plutocratic sociopaths for whom the immiseration of the working class and the trashing of the planet are conscious goals, while the Democrats are trying their best to tame capitalism for the rest of us and prevent it from running the planet into the ground.
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