IMO, the right wing does not understand political reality, and history, science, or logic very well (they don't practise it). Spoken like another frustrated member of the reality-based community who Just Doesn't Understand:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." en.wikipedia.org
That was allegedly Karl Rove circa 2004; I've been flogging that quote since it was first published in the NYT magazine. The "We" in "We're an empire" would normally parse as "America" I guess, but the empire in question would actually seem to be the movement conservatives in charge of American foreign policy at the time. But in light of the general disregard for history, logic, science and economics rampant among the current GOP smart set, the We would seem to be more the empire of American conservative thought. It's a little depressing how impregnable the empire seems to attack by normal rational processes, but that's life. |
