McClatchy News has the story Senate to take up student loans, resuming partisan debate.

Senate Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin agrees with Baldwin that student debt is a big problem, but his view of the issue couldn’t be more different. While Baldwin says decreases in student aid and state education funding have exacerbated student debt, Johnson contends that government spending has fueled the problem by making it too easy for students to borrow money.

I just don’t understand why this Republican ploy works, the more untruthful and illogical the Republicans’ stance is, the more it seems to work for them.  Could it be the tremendous wealth behind their political campaigns and the fact that they just need to stop the government from doing anything to get what they want? Is this what makes them so powerful in this country?

In fact the support from government at all levels for higher education has been cut over the last 30 to 40 years, and the costs no longer paid for by government have been shifted onto the students.  The Republicans feign surprise at this logical reaction, and want to give us an even stronger dose of the poison that is killing us.

Perhaps the public is waking up to the fact that counter-intuitive explanations for what is happening to our country are not surprisingly correct.  They are just as wrong as their intuition says they are.

As the Wizard of Oz said, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”.  Republican wizardry is a better explanation for how to fix what ails you than all logic would have you believe?  You just have to have faith.  Maybe that is why the Republicans are in such favor with the religious right.  The more outrageous the claim, the stronger the faith is to hold onto it.