I recieved this as an email a few months ago,
This is how I feel about Politics
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.
Hang on.
Most of the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they
were not permitted to climb the stairs, nor 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...
And that is why we need to replace ALL of the original monkeys
this November.
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