Lightbulb of the Union

Apparently my usually amazing analogies have been off today. While studying for a big History test with my friend NJ Snow, we started talking about the Federalists, and how that political party eventually died out and it was only the Democrats, but then the Whigs eventually came in and grew to power. So NJ explained it as, "So the Federalists were like this puddle when the Democrats came into power, and then during the Era of Good Feelings America was like this big lightbulb that dried up the Federalist puddle. And then later the water vapor recondensed into the Whig party-" Of course, that is obviously a bad analogy, since the Whigs had absolutely nothing to do with the Federalists in any way. So I corrected him. "No NJ, there was no cloud. The Whigs were more like this little fly that was attracted to the lightbulb like flies are...except then when it got there it grew and got bigger..." ....Yeah......The point is we studied and made no more analogies like that.