Cause and Effect... Pretty basic, right?

The law of cause and effect is not known as “the suggestion” of cause and effect or “the myth” of cause and effect… It is commonly referred to as “the law of cause and effect” because the principal of cause and effect is universally agreed upon as being a basic truth about how things work.

So I will proceed here under the assumption that as the reader of this, you will not feel compelled to dispute the law of cause and effect.

In any given situation, when faced with any variety of challenges or problems to solve, in any area of anyone’s life, one must first observe the law of cause and effect. To solve a problem, you must determine what caused it, and then develop a solution which directly and explicitly addresses the cause of the problem.

The right-wing political sound-bite machine has been extraordinarily effective at myriad irrelevant distractions from reality. But none of their warped distractions have been more effectively and consistently arresting to progressive solutions than their distractions from the law of cause and effect. Specifically; where it concerns the global financial meltdown, the subsequent cascading joblessness, and ultimately what to do about it.

…How to solve it!

To distract us from how to actually solve it, they relentlessly bombarded us with mass hysteria about taxes. They have made taxation the new "evil threat to our way of life".

Oh sure... Obama got rid of Bin Ladin and some other really really bad people, but so what... Taxes are the real "axis of evil".

Taxes have become Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, and the Republicans have turned us all into a nation of villagers with torches and pitchforks. ...We are behaving as if taxes created the problem.

Here’s the thing… The global financial meltdown and the subsequent cascading joblessness were caused by an unprecedented reckless lack of oversight unleashed by rampant deregulation driven by republican policy. An unprecedented reckless lack of oversight unleashed by rampant deregulation driven by republican policy is the cause… The global financial meltdown and the subsequent cascading joblessness is the effect.

...Cause - Effect.

Taxes did not create the problem. The republican policy of pandering to corporations, with unbridled deregulation, is what caused the problem. And a problem caused by the republican policy of deregulation cannot be solved by the republican policy of hysterical anti-tax tunnel vision.

Cause and effect. Here's where we can choose to constructively observe or destructively ignore the LAW of Cause and Effect...

We can realistically endeavor to reverse the effect by developing strategies which hold potential to reverse the actual cause. Or we can pitifully continue to bury our heads in the sands of Fox News sound-bites and anti-tax hysteria; so that we remain hopelessly distracted from the real solutions.

Balls and Blame

So here’s the thing… I’m in favor of the objectives of democrats in office, but I’m perpetually disappointed with their ineffective methods. I think that Bill Maher put it best when he said: “One party’s got no balls and the other party’s got no brains”. And yes, while it is interesting to observe what soulless, greedy corporate criminals wealthy republican are; and to laugh about what brainless, inbred, toothless hicks poor republicans are; and to ponder the telling implications of the extinction of the middle class, that’s not what I want to focus on right now. Yes, the republican as a species is the missing link, on the evolutionary scale, between ape and early man. But rather than further illustrating obvious attributes of republican brainlessness, I want to talk about the democrats’ lack of balls.

If every democrat in office had to line up, drop their pants and show us their balls, the whole lot of them would not be able to find two nuts to rub together. Under any circumstances, regardless of any size of majority they’ve held, the democrats always let the republicans bulldoze right over them. Even if there was only one republican in the House and only one republican in the Senate, all the democrats in office would line up and grab their ankles; eagerly awaiting the republican shaft. So, no matter what, the republicans are always in total control of the government.

Always! …No matter what, the republicans are always in total control of the government. The only thing that having any democrats in office accomplishes is that it provides the GOP with someone to blame for all the horrible results of republican policy.

So here’s what needs to happen. Get every single democrat out of office. All of them. Every single one. And keep them all out for two solid presidential terms. It’s got to be two because during the first term with no democrats, the republicans will still find a way to blame everything on democrats. After all, blaming democrats is what they do best, and even a total absence of democrats can't stop them from doing it.

But by the end of that second term, if the republicans haven’t sent the whole world back to the stone age, enough people will have seen the light to put a real progressive party in power. A new progressive party. A progressive party with enough balls to know that when the American voters hand you the ball, you need to fucking run with it!

I’m no genius…

But Albert Einstein was.

And he defined insanity as: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

So here’s the thing. The global financial meltdown and all the subsequent mass unemployment was a direct result of the rampant deregulation driven by Republican policy. Republican fiscal principals (as well intended as they may have been) created the problem.

And now, a couple years of Fox News sound bites later, the American voters have been convinced to throw more Republican policy at a problem created by Republican policy. We’re trying to extinguish a fire by throwing buckets of gasoline on it.

I’m not saying that the other party has all the answers, or that they haven’t made any mistakes… But come on. After the airplane spent 8 years in a nosedive, you’re bound to scrape a few mountain tops no matter how hard you pull back on the controls.

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein