Reply #16: It's tempting to wish for a "realist" political party....

[eallen]

Let those who believe in ghosts, gods, ghouls and things that go bump in the night wreak their nonsense with the religious right or the karmic left. The problem is that these beliefs are as tenacious as their objects are ephemeral. It is a bit scary that that results in elected leaders who believe in these things, in presidents in charge of nuclear arsenals who take their instruction from mythical prophets and avatars, in people forming environmental policy who believe that some great spirit also guards the land, in people forming science policy who believe in ghosts, auras, and assorted nonsense, etc.

I don't know a solution for it though.