If 20% of Americans who are currently employed as politicians had previously worked as farmers...

[Boojatta]

then would people complain that they are out of touch with the general public on the grounds that the vast majority of Americans haven't worked as farmers?

[Eric J in MN]

1. What is this an analogy to? NT

NT

[Boojatta]

2. It's just a hypothetical. Analogies are optional.

[Demeter]

3. If 20% of American Politicians Had Done Any Useful Work at All

we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with. There are too many parasites in high places who have never done a useful lick of work in their lives, in the public and the private secotrs.

[muntrv]

4. If 20% of the Americans employed as politicians had worked as farmers,

middle class and working class people wouldn't have these problems such as foreclosure, jobs being shipped overseas.

In short, corporatism would not run rampant.

[Bucky]

5. If 50% of politicians were lawyers...

I'm sure their share of Congress is much higher than that.

[ThomWV]

6. In a nation where less than 5% are farmers I'd say they had different backgrounds, but ...

That certainly would not have a thing at all to do with them being intouch or out of touch (whatever in hell that is supposed to mean) with - and here's another one - the "general public".

[Boojatta]

7. Kick