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In reply to the discussion: Why is Barr SEEMINGLY choosing TREASON over PATRIOTISM? [View all]JHB
(37,158 posts)"People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. Thats not the way the world really works anymore. Were an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you are studying that reality judiciously, as you will well act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and thats how things will sort out. Were historys actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." -- anonymous Bush adviser later identified to be Karl Rove
That's been the conservative standard operating procedure a few decades now: Push hard, grab with both hands, brazen it out, and you'll get what you want and leave everyone else stumbling to pick up the pieces. And what they want is to be the ones unequivocally on top, the people who call all the shots and can brush off or squash anyone who thinks different.