Reality cannot be ignored, except at a price

In my book Sex and Politics, I examined the consequences of politicians who fail to recognize the reality of the consequences of their political sex scandals. Fortunately the price of their consequences falls squarely on them. It’s far different for politicians to engage in dogmatic Political ideologies when they must know that they are wrong, and would result in a penalty in which everyone would have to pay at a terrible price. “Reality cannot be ignored, except at a price and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and the more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.” (Alddous Huxley) The reality is that those politicians, who continue to insist on voodoo economic remedies that failed measurably in the past either don’t care, are ignorant of the past, or worst of all are deliberately destroying our country. On Friday, Standard and poor (not so poor?) downgraded the good faith and credibility of the Government, saying in effect our politicians can’t govern, and have ridicules economic ideas. As I write this the stock market has dropped almost 5%, after its fall of 3% before its close on Friday. Doesn’t this tell the Republicans’ and their Tea Nut superiors something is amiss?

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