Originally Posted by Ardy
I think that every decision that we all make has unintended consequences. And I think that we all have rationalizations that make the motivations of our decisions seem like the only reasonable choice a person could make. and we all have layers of hidden agendas that lie behind our decisions... many of those agendas we hide from even ourselves.

It strains credulity to expect that a political decision involving lots of people will be free of the above dynamics which affect each of us individually.
Remember Spock and his 3D chess game? The complexity of human interactions is no less complicated. In world politics, every twitch seems to have one intended consequence and two or three unintended ones. Some of the interactions are more obvious, like the Party-formerly-known-as-TEA (PfkaT) stonewalling every attempt to improve the U.S. economy if Obama might get some credit for it, and still the most appropriate moves are unclear. In a world full of boneheads, where even the most intelligent appearing folks can't communicate a simple point, how can there not be a chaos of unintended consequences?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller