Democracy in the USA

A big day in the Primaries, and as the campaigns grind on America tells the rest of the world this is how democracy works.
Here at overthegardenfence we keep a keen eye on politics, and Nosher and me are constantly amazed at how life in the big world mirrors what goes on in our little allotment world.
We have system of vegocracy, whereby the vegetables get to vote for the President of the Allotment Association. Well, they think they do, but in reality the outcome is decided by the manipulation of greed and fear, as in most democracies.
Our allotment is separeted from a much bigger one by a stream called the Great Piddle, and this distant allotment, the United States of Allotments, has a vegocratic system not unlike that of our transatlantic cousins. the US.
The present incumbent as President, whom we nickname George W. Bush, is famous for his comment 'Is our vegetables learning?', but he can't stand again as he's already served two terms as President. So the newcomers are queuing up to take his place. The hottest protential candidate so far, nicknamed Hillary, has a head start because her husband is a previous President, his fame and notoriety assured by being caught one day in the Great White Allotment Shed with his trousers down fondling his wedding vegetables.
On both sides of the Great Piddle vegocracy has one common characteristic: the politicians (that is, the allotment holders) promise their vegetables to be their servants, and then bury them in manure - to wit, bullshit. But whereas the vegetables in the United States of Allotments still retain some vestigial hope in this process, most of the vegetables on our little allotment on this side of the Great Piddle are beset with apathy and cynicism about vegocracy.
And that's just how Nosher and me like things to be. In our view, an apathetic vegetable is a compliant vegetable. The current President of our Allotment Association, nicknamed Gordon 'The Moron' Brown, has showered the vegetables with regulations about standardised growing rates and safety regulations (such as 'no vegetable shall steal another vegetable's water'), but, of course, none of these regulations apply to us allotment holders - we can do exactly as we please. But it's important to convince the vegetables that they are getting a good deal.
Nosher has painted on his shed the slogan: 'All vegetables are equally equal - but your allotment holder can do exactly as he pleases', whereas on my shed I've painted 'Your allotment holder is here to serve you - and you must obey him'. Our vegetables may look upon this as a cynical abuse of power, but we don't give a hoot so long as they keep growing.
Still, the similarities between the little world of allotments and politics in the real world throw up some interesting comparisons, and Nosher and I will be watching the Primaries with interest - we might even learn a trick or two we could use to good advantage when our allotment elections come around again.
More from overthegardenfence soon.