Quoting Morrie Wyatt (morrie@morrie.id.au):
As the Amreican cartoonist Johnny Hart once described it in the BC comic strip's "Wiley's Dictionary":
"Politics
A many handed game in which mud balls are trumps."
I can't say I've seen any political campaign that has given me cause to disagree.
(Sorry, I know I read it back in the late 60's / early 70's, but even uncle Google can't seem to find it.)
Hart was very prolific and had an incredibly long career, in which he literally started his most famous strip in the year of my birth. I've found examples of Wiley's Dictionary such as https://fishducky.blogspot.com/2017/10/wileys-dictionary.html that make clear that it wasn't _exactly_ one of his strips, but rather a recurring gag scenario in his much-beloved strip 'B.C.' (Which is doubtless what you meant, but I'm jetlagged, so bear with me.) It wasn't difficult to see between the lines that Johnny Hart was both politically conservative and deeply religious, but he was never a jerk about it, or preachy[1], let alone what you in Oz would call a wowzer, so we effete Ivy League liberal secular Americans enjoyed the hell out of his work, too -- especially 'Wizard of Id' and 'B.C.' He was a national treasure, and I miss him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hart [1] According to the L.A. Times obituary, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-09-me-hart9-story.html, he made up for lost time in occasional wack-a-doodle religious stemwinder 'message' strips starting in the 1980s when he had a sudden personal religious experience. For whatever reason, I seem to have never run across those, so I'm glad to remember Hart as an amiable and funny codger, rather than as your embarrassing uncle who mortifies everyone at family dinners. (Or maybe I just ignored those. Apparently they were limited to special 'message' strips at Easter and Christmas.)