Nobody Loves Us (and We Don't Care)!

I've always had a penchant for 'creating' sporting team analogies, to make points, in my teaching, about scientific connections. Looking at developments on both sides of the Atlantic, makes it abundantly clear that political parties also have a great deal in common with football (soccer) teams. Supporters of political parties, like many soccer supporters, sing the virtues of their 'team' whether it's right or wrong. If they lose, they were unlucky, the other team cheated and/or the referee was biased. There are often surpringly few 'floating voters', who will change sides (on the basis of logic?) in an election. In deed, elections are generally won and lost, by members of the 'opposing side' failing to come out to vote in a few 'swing' areas. 'Nobody loves us (and we don't care)' is a famous chant of the East London team, Millwall FC. Perhaps political parties in the US and UK should be honest and adopt similar slogans? Democracy, in the event, is looking distinctly shaky.