Lemme try to explain the distinction between "reality=based" and "pragmatic"

[Jackpine Radical]

with respect to politics.

"Reality-based" is accepting the evidence for climate change, knowing that human misery increases as a function of all the money being sucked to the top, and understanding that enterprises for the collective good such as education and health care do not function well when left in greed-motivated private hands, and seeking to enact policies that ameliate and reverse these conditions.

"Pragmatic" is either not acknowledging or not knowing any of the above, but in any case actively or passively avoiding doing anything about them because any substantive action will piss off more wealthy donors than it will attract.

[markpkessinger]

1. So absolutely and utterly on the money, Jackpine! n/t

[bemildred]

2. KnR. nt

[trof]

3. K&R

[Bluenorthwest]

4. In politics for me the word 'Pragmatic' is forever tied to the 'moderates' who kept shouting about

how marriage equality was not Pragmatic and that pony wanting gay people needed to get Pragmatic and give up on equality right now.
Also it was amusing to me to hear from Obama on one day that he was a Pragmatist and the next that he was a devout Christian because Pragmatism and Christianity as philosophies are mutually exclusive.