If you start with a cage containing
five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and
then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go
to the stairs and climb toward the banana.
As soon as he touches the stairs, you
spray all the other monkeys with cold water.
After a while another monkey makes an
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
attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the
crap out of 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, replacing it with a new one.
The newcomer goes to the stairs and is
attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment . .. with
enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team."
Then, replace a third original monkey
with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest
monkey takes to the stairs he is attacked.
Now, the monkeys that are beating him
up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do
they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
Finally, having replaced all of the
original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed
with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the
stairway for the banana.
Why, you ask? Because in their
minds . . . that is the way it has always been!
This, my friends, is how Congress
operates . . . and this is why, from time to time:
ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED
AT THE SAME TIME
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