As a single withered tree if set aflame causes a whole forest to burn so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

My dad is kind of a rascal like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.