I wish I was the moon tonight...

25 May 2011

“One party, the Democrats, suffers from the usual range of institutional blind spots, historical foibles, and constituency-driven evasions. The other, the Republicans, has moved to a mental Shangri-La, where unwanted problems (climate change, the need to pay the costs of running the government) can be wished away, prejudice trumps fact (Obama might just be Kenyan-born or a Muslim), expertise is evidence of error, and reality itself comes to be regarded as some kind of elitist plot.”
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Birtherism, the debt ceiling, climate change, evolution: Are Republicans losing their grip on reality? (via azspot)

Love that last bit. It is unbelievable the power they have to spin any fact into a negative statement or insult toward someone.

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