Analogies are pretty great as arguments, in my experience. Bad analogies are obviously bad. And you can't use them against redditors because their answer is always "ArE You rEAlLy coMpARInG thoSe TWo tHiNGs?" Like, yes, that's the point of an analogy.
there are only two buses. both buses are going to hell! and you better get on one of them or else the other bus will win the bus contest and be declared the king of all the buses.
Look, the only two busses that run from here are the ones to the Death Zone and the Ultra-Death Zone. Do you want to go to the Ultra-Death Zone? You like Ultra-Death? I didn't think so. Get on the Death Zone bus and stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
They've been using this one for the last 3 elections and I've always pointed out that when both buses are going in the opposite direction of where you want to be you simply do not get on the bus.
Both busses are driving towards doing a genocide, I want to go the opposite direction of not doing a genocide. Which bus should I get on in this tortured metaphor?
They can only get by by question begging the whole "Is not being Trump enough?"
As it turns out, the bus that promotes genocide does not get me closer to where I want to be, especially since this bus was what people took last election and it got us here. There is no such thing as adequate evidence for these people, only religious dogma.
And if there's no lines going anywhere near where I'm going? I'm not jumping on a bus for the sake of it. If there's only two lines in town and they're both taking me further away from my destination, then I most certainly won't waste my money on a ticket to nowhere.
I'm probably going to walk instead.
In a democracy, it's really important to publicly announce that you intend to consistently vote for people that don't ever do what you want them to do. That way they'll feel as free as possible to fish for votes from people that want really shitty stuff to happen.
The bus isn't really going in the direction that I want, and the bus stops are an extra distance out of the way, and it doesn't run on time, so I'm just going to carpool or ride a bike.
And then I'm going to send a complaint to the city council about they need better bus routes.