When something does not make sense to me, my favorite retort is “How so?”, which is really short for, “How is that so.”
In other words, “WHY?”
It’s right up there in my lexicon with “How does THAT work?”, which is my response when someone insists that the perpetual motion machine they are building in their basement will, despite violating all the laws of physics, actually work.
Newton’s third law states that, “For every action there is and equal and opposite reaction.”
The same is true in politics – for everything that conservatives do, there is an extreme reaction from the liberals. It’s important to keep in mind that everything politicians do is calculated and planned. Shoot, most of them don’t use the restroom without a plan.
Successful politicians don’t “wing it,” and they rarely speak in absolutes. Their staffers cook up things for them to talk about, pepper them with “feelings,” and shove the more articulate (or entertaining) of them in front of the media.
More often than not, the message is negative. When the liberals were completely apoplectic about a simple audit of the federal governments spending and systems, my first question was “Why?”
Why are they so upset about something they have been paying lip service for the past four decades? Why is this not a good thing? In business, audits are welcomed by good operators, and feared by the fraudsters.
The answer, I believe, is two-fold. First, austerity means they can’t fund the vote buying schemes that have been chasing. Second, if inflation is reduced, so is their power.
For example, student loan “forgiveness.” Let’s call it what it is – dollars for votes. They don’t care about trade school debt or tradesmen because they already know that they are taxpayers who won’t vote for them. But if they take from these productive members of society and give that money to someone with a degree in “human sexuality,” they have likely purchased a voter for life.
Think of them as tax takers. It’s really simple cause and effect.
Second is that right-sizing the federal budget means inflation will come down, and that means that citizens will have more money, and the Democrats simply can’t have that; they have to keep society under their finger.
It’s always been that way in Socialist regimes. Free thought be damned, all that “is” must come from the government. Republicans know inflation comes from those who have a monopoly on printing money, in other words, the government. The government has no money other than what it takes from us, or which it prints, and printing more money devalues the money that we already have, making it, in effect, exactly the same thing.
Democrats know that they don’t have to tax you more if they introduce inflation, effectively taking more from the most productive members of society. Tax the rich. Suddenly, you’re considered rich, and they can always try to boost welfare payments to take care of their faithful.
Keep this in mind when you observe political machinations. Ask yourself how this benefits them, or how it keeps them getting re-elected. Reduce what they are doing to a grocery store transaction.
The politicians offers a block of cheese. All it costs is a vote.
Every once in a while, something slips through that is good for “We the People,” and neutral for the legislators. Not often, but every once in a while. But all legislation is eternal.
Keep on asking “WHY? Your conclusions will surprise you.
