No, of course not. That's what makes it an analogy.

> If you really stretch to make it an analogy, the analogy is "rich people have a paternal relationship with poor people, and without government intervention rich people have a history and tendency of promoting poor people to positions of power out of altruism." Which is a silly analogy to make. Because they don't. And never have, and never will. Unless there's a tax break in it for them, of course.

Of course not, and I agree. But now you're working outside of the analogy. Maintain the scope of the argument you'r making.

> No, but you sure are butt-hurt.

If by "butthurt" you mean "frustrated," then yes, I am. So? How is that relevant to anything? That's just you invoking the mentality of "u mad bro" in order to provoke an emotional response.

Moving over the baseless feeding of your ego, there's this:

> I have yet to insult you personally, yet so far you've accused me of straw-man arguments (without pointing out how or why they're straw man arguments), and called me a "holier-than-thou asshat."

So? What's your point? Did your high school English teacher tell you that an ad hominem is any attack against the speaker? In your own words, I am no less willing to "call a spade a spade." If you make a straw man argument, I will point it out. If you're an asshat, I will point it out. You made straw man arguments and you were kind of a dick about it. I am not ashamed to say that.

> Mostly what you've proven is that you're so offended by coarse language that you'll sling it willfully at anyone who dares to cross you.

Mostly what you've proven is that only you can use course language and that anyone else must be condescendingly scolded for it -- according to your egocentric "logic."

> I like it here just fine. And I will stick around, and I will continue to call a spade a spade, and I will continue to recognize that an attack against an idea is not the same as an attack against a person, even if everyone else has an extreme, pants-soiling inability to do the same.

And hopefully you will continue to accept that everyone else is also entitled to do the same, asshat.