If I were searching for a book title to describe the United States today, it would have to be Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. In his sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice moves through a mirror into an irrational and illogical world, which pretty much describes D.C. these days. Legislation that does precisely the opposite of what its title infers, and even when the title isn’t misleading, the legislation is often redundant or useless.
It seems as if the very ideas of right vs wrong, truth vs lie, and justice vs injustice have been turned upside down. It seems to me not so much that you have to be crazy to run for Congress… They’ll train you.
In his novel Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll described a world full of illogical and irrational people, rather like Washington, D.C.
We have the House of Representatives passing another so-called “tax relief” bill that is mostly full of handouts. They claim spending more money on low-income households will make their lives better, even though history has shown that the necessary borrowing means inflation will far outstrip the goodies being offered.
We have a documentary from PBS showing us that the January 6th Select Committee was more a reality show than an actual hearing. And we have more bills being passed in the House that claim to deal with the illegal alien problem but do absolutely nothing to stop the flow of illegal aliens.
If a sane person were to go to Congress, I think they’d quote Carlton Heston in Planet of the Apes and scream, “IT’S A MAD HOUSE!!! A MAD HOUSE!” I don’t think you have to be crazy to run for Congress; they’ll train you.
