Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes the attempt with same result, all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another Monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the Stairs.
To his shock, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
Why not?
Because as far as they know, that is the way it has always been done around here.
And that, my fellow monkeys, is how Congress operates....
We need to REPLACE all the original monkeys this November
As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes the attempt with same result, all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another Monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.
Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the Stairs.
To his shock, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. After replacing all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.
Why not?
Because as far as they know, that is the way it has always been done around here.
And that, my fellow monkeys, is how Congress operates....
We need to REPLACE all the original monkeys this November
So then we'll be getting rid of all the Republican MCs too, right?
ReplyDeleteSo if your monkey is a Republican, you'll vote for a Democrat this time?
ReplyDeleteYou can only vote for the people who are actually on the ballot, you know.
The anti-government rhetoric is so over-the-top, my local paper recently printed a letter calling for "fire them all" wanting to do away with all local government completely. An incredibly stupid idea, but that's where this kind of hate government monkey story leads--to a mindless hatred and simplistic thinking about how things work.
ReplyDeleteI get that people are frustrated and often with good reason. But I am frustrated by the simplistic mindlesses of junk like this. While it's ok to vent sometimes, the rightwing is constantly hyper-vent-ilating, and often with no realistic solution.
ReplyDeleteWe've seen quite a few RWFs like this one, which basically say "fire them all." It's more useful to come up with practical solutions that have a chance of working.
If you're ticked off w/your local gov't, then how about attending council meetings and demanding evidence of employee salaries, for example?? It's not that difficult to come up with actions that can be taken, but it seems like rightwingers prefer to mindlessly whine and complain, rather than take responibility for, you know, doing something.
Any chance someone then gave these monkeys typewriters? Because that would explain a lot.
ReplyDeleteWish these beings would stop monkeying around.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans are just mad because they're descended from apes.
ReplyDeleteStop giving monkeys such a bad name!
ReplyDeleteI'm about to go ape-s***!
ReplyDeleteThis is bananas!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to say that this is more fun than a barrel of monkeys, but it's not.
ReplyDeleteHanging out with the apes certainly made more sense than this monkey-poo.
ReplyDeleteChetah! Is that you, Chetah??
ReplyDeleteStop monkeying around, Tarzan!
ReplyDeleteMake those darn monkeys work for a living. I should know! Climbing the Empire State Building was hard work.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the Monkey House.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fleabit peanut monkey. All my friends are monkies...
ReplyDeleteHolmes, I insist that you get that monkey off of your back.
ReplyDeleteWhat's with all this monkey business?
ReplyDeleteStop the monkey shines already.
ReplyDeleteHear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
ReplyDeleteMonkey Do.
ReplyDeleteLOL: there's a huge monkey flying out of your huge butt, Rush!
ReplyDeleteDon't laugh so fast, Useless Glenn, there's a big monkey flying outta your ass, too.
ReplyDeleteCackle!! Those are my flying monkeys, my pretty boys, and they have you under my control.
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