An old cladist woman does indeed try to shoot the bear with the broom handle

Instead of understanding Russell's paradox, cladistics believes that it can find it.

Instead of understanding that Russell's paradox means that classification is ultimately contradictory, cladistics claims that classification is ultimately consistent.

It means that instead of being consistent, cladistics is consistently inconsistent. It leads cladistics into a vain search for an infinite recursion, that is, the subjective side of Russell's paradox.

Cladistics is thus actually the up-side-down approach, or the belief that "if" does not exist, exemplified with the expression that "if if did not exist, so had the old woman shot the bear with a broom handle". An old cladist woman does indeed try to shoot the bear with the broom handle. She not only believes, but also claims and defines, that the broom handle is a gun, and then she shoots.