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Originally Posted by Botnst
It's a self-evident fallacy to believe that correlation is causation.
For example, I think the Democrats running the Congress for 50 years caused everything bad that had happened in the USA until the Repos finally gained control of both houses. For proof I offer everything bad that happened while the Democrats ran the Congress.
Yeah, correlation is causation.
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My example was specific, that was the presidency where we went from lending money to the world to owing money to the world. The door got pushed open then.
Since then, its been more of the same, regardless of party, because apart from the occasional clear statesman, few prospective presidential candidates want to tell the people something they don't want to hear.
One of the reasons I loved Ross Perot, who swooped in with his pie charts and told everyone they were crazy, then demonstrated how.