That wasn’t metaphorical language. That was your retort to me saying lobbying push the government. That’s not metaphor, that’s you making up your own definition to words.
Do you know the difference between simile and metaphor? The latter is saying that one is the other, versus one being like the other. And in practice, lobbying goes beyond the metaphorical, anyhow; we are living with the effects of it all around us. My statement is a fair statement.