I've had some discussions about karma, the idea if you do bad things, bad things will happen to you. What goes around, comes around. You reap what you sow.
I was not so sure. It seemed to me in order for karma to work, the bad actors have to believe they have done something wrong and unconsciously punish themselves, because I do not believe in a sentient universe. See, I thought that there were only two ways karma can happen: by an outside agent, like the score-keeping universe; or by an internal motivation, like guilt.
But it turns out there is another way. You can invite your downfall in by the choices you make. If you are a bank robber, you invite law enforcement into your life as the agents of justice and the personification of karma. It is the neatest and tidiest method of a problem solving itself.
The Republican Party's animus toward President Obama was so naked and so virulent that they invited the Tea Party into their own house to do their dirty work for them.
Guess what happened?
The Tea Party is going to Burn the House down.