We are human beings.
We live on planet Earth.
We will obey the laws of physics.
For several weeks I have been searching through my vocabulary for a word that would express a specific concept with accuracy and precision. I couldn't find the word that I needed. I consulted my thesaurus. My word's not there either, at least not that I could find.
Then with the idea that the English language is the most versatile and most adaptable language on the planet and new words are being invented and added to the language all the time, I decided to invent my own. It does have a bit of a clunky feel to it, but with the help of my thesaurus, I did it. The new word that I invented is the word 'unthinker' as in "The long term, deeply entrenched, institutional culture of Congress has rendered Congress into an institution of
unthinkers."
The Democrats in Congress operate on mental autopilot as programmed by liberal ideologies. The Republicans in Congress operate on mental autopilot as programmed by conservative ideologies. That's not really a problem as long as all they do is talk-the-talk at each other, or, past each other at the people as the case may be. It is when they actually decide to do something that their unthinking causes bad things to happen in the lives of good people. Then they call it, unthinkingly, the law of unintended negative consequences while apparently never thinking that it was their unthinking actions that caused the negative consequences.
The worst possible things happen when the two ideologies come into confluence with each other on one problem. Then we get the results of someone else's invented word, bipartisanship. (Is bipartisan a biredundancy?) That means that the two parties have found a way for each to unthink in their own way about the same problem.
It is then that we get such creations of unthinkmanship as the proposed so-called Illegal immigration bipartisan reform legislation which doesn't reform anything that can be noticed and actually does nothing or almost nothing to deter and put a halt to the criminal invasion of our country. In fact, it is highly likely that if that big pile of biunthinking crap is actually passed and signed into law then the change in illegal immigration will look a lot more like escalation than it looks like deterrence. But if so, will it be due to the law of unintended negative consequences? How unthinking and unkind of me to suspect that what I suspect could be true. Surely any harm that is done to the nation and to the lives of the nation's citizens would be unthinkable and thus unintentional?
I'm sure glad I finally have my word even though it may be just a little clunky.