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This is where the rubber of government meets the road of actual human beings.
— Leslie Knope • Parks and Recreation
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker adapts a familiar road metaphor to describe government encountering actual people. The image shifts attention from institutions in the abstract to their human effects. Its slightly awkward pairing of rubber and human beings gives an earnest point about public service a comic texture.
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