Despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that I'm a physicist by training, I always have been skeptical of analogies between physical models and political life. That being said, even if one accepts such analogies in general, this particular analogy is rather curious. Are you seriously contending that special and general relativity are any more obscure, anachronistic or inapplicable to everyday life than Newton's laws?

- Jake

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