Reply #36: No you are not 'simply' articulating a definition at all

[Bluenorthwest]

You are also egagning in claims of prognostication, seeing the future, knowing what can and can not happen in 'our lifetimes' as if anyone on the planet has ever been able to make any sort of accurate predictions of any nature.
Anyone, and I mean anyone, whose argument involves having to accept a seer like vision of future events is selling soap and has a reason to do so. Magical thinking is not used by those who are 'simply being accurate'. Rational people do not claim to know the future. Period. It is an irrational mindset, not based on reality, but on presumptions. Anyone who disagrees should look up blogs for the week before Obama won Iowa, which was 'not possible' and 'too soon' and they muttered about 'white America' and the 'Bradley Effect'(another phrase made to sound like science when it was just bullshards) and on and on. They knew, for sure, what could and could not happen. Look at history, they said.
What does the Amazing Kresin think about it? At least he can find his paycheck under any form of health care.