After I listened to Meet The Press this morning, I could not keep my mouth shut another minute. I could not believe  Chuck Todd nor his guests didn’t see what I heard: the Catch-22 in American politics today.

In 1961, Joseph Heller published Catch-22 and gave us the perfect example of what’s happening now. All political speech today is Catch-22. If you don’t know what it means, go to the dictionary and look it up. [Editor’s note: I’m not linking to it because Puff would like you to look it up yourself and we all do what Puff says around here.]

Politicians speak in Catch-22-ese, so voters don’t get real answers, and that’s why voter turnout is so low. But it’s not just on the politicians. All American people need a course in basic Logic, so they can discern whether something is a contradiction (black and white) or a contrast (grey matter).

We don’t have logic today; we live in Catch-22: politicians don’t want to say anything that someone might vote against, so nobody knows what they’re saying. We need to make people’s brains move a little bit better and argue a point. We need to look at something someone is saying and ask ourselves, “What are the points here?”

This really affects everyone out there who is running for election and all the elections coming up next week. Let’s see if the men and women who are running for office can speak in logical terms on election day.