When the adherents of any particular Cave Dweller remarked that their man was wiping the floor with his rival, it did not mean that he was talking himself red in the face to a bored audience of sixteen friends and a reporter.

It meant that he was dragging that rival by the legs round the enclosure and making the place damp and untidy with him.
Early instances of "Dumping." Maybe the Cave Dweller, finding nuts in his own neighbourhood growing scarce, would emigrate himself: for even in that age the politician was not always logical.

Thus _roles_ became reversed.

The defender of his country became the alien, dumping himself where he was not wanted.

The charm of those early political arguments lay in their simplicity.