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Facts about "GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD"
| Entailment | If government sucessfully performs action, people will flourish (If shepherd successfully performs actions, sheep will flourish, ?, ?) +, government makes decisions, people do what government wants them to (shepherd makes decsions, sheep do what shepherd wants them to, ?) + and Governed people are not capable of making decisions or protecting themselves (Sheep are not capable of flourishing on their own (without shepherd)., ?, ?) + |
| Example | English (Citizen Sheep Government Shepherds, ?, ?, Book title, by Mike Sodrel, ?, ?, ?) +, English (Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence, it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd., ?, ?, Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, section 4 chapter 6, ?, ?) + and English (Obama and the Progressives do not believe this. They believe they must decide what is best. In their view Americans are sheep and they are the shepherd., ?, ?, "Conservative Historian" webpage: http://conservativehistorian.com/columns/platoandpresidentobama.html Accessed 11/29/12, ?, ?, ?) + |
| Has source frame | Frame:Shepherding + |
| Has target frame | Frame:Government + |
| Mapping | governor (shepherd, ?) +, governed (sheep, ?) +, governor_objectives (objective(s), ?) + and governing_actions (shepherding_activities, ?) + |
| Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
| Metaphor.Level | Specific + |
| Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Shepherding + |
| Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Government + |
| Metaphor.Type | Composed/complex + |
| Related metaphor | is a source subcase of (GOVERNMENT IS A PERSON, ?) + |
| Has subobject "Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page. | Metaphor:GOVERNMENT IS A SHEPHERD#Is_example_of + |
