Best analogy I've seen in quite a while.........
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.