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Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
18. They stopped dealing with reality a while back
Thu Jan 17, 2013, 03:18 AM
Jan 2013

Same as Obama will take their guns, destroy the health care system, and declare himself king. That's the problem: most liberals prefer to deal with real problems with real world options, and the Republican core currently lives in a fantasy world, totally devoid of facts or reality, in which black helicopters are coming for them, building a bunker to protect themselves from a "magnetic pole inversion," and in which truthiness replaces the truth.

It's one thing to deal with people who have different philosophical leanings. People with different viewpoints can get along, find a common ground. But dealing with an effectively amoral group (Republican politicians) who actively deny objective, provable, and demonstrable reality? Impossible.

Scientific inquiry, and the conservative approach to it, seems to be a microcosm of the fundamental political issues of our day. Scientists see an observable phenomenon and wonder what causes it, whereas the conservative already knows everything and looks for evidence to support their preconceived notion. Granted, confirmation bias affects everyone, but conservatives take it to an art form.

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