As we enter yet another disheartening election season, we are all about to be beset with the onslaught of advertising from the republicans about how, if they get control, gas prices will plummet, high paying jobs will be a dime - nay, a nickel - a dozen and a Tesla will be priced at the modest sum of $15,000; sirloin steak will cost a dollar a pound and chickens will be pounding on all the doors of all the citizens of the Republic that they may leap into those citizens' pots.
Lest you think this to be another anti-republican diatribe, hear this.
If the republicans had the presidency, the Senate and the House, the democrats would be primed for the same ad campaign.
That's the way it goes, year after year, decade after decade.
Never in that time does any member of the electorate ask some obvious questions: "Why would the party in control allow jobs to be scarce and financially flaccid? Why would the party in control allow gas prices to require bank loans for fill-ups? and so on and so on.
The answer to all those questions is disquieting.
The answer to those questions, and many kindred questions not here posed, is all the same.
The party in control, or the party out of control - neither - have any control over the economy.
The economy is a monster that wanders on its own random walk through history, leaving mansions and mayhem in its wake; but politicians don't have any control of its random walk.
So why do they always claim that they do?
Because the electorate are morons.
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