The Revenge of the Reality-Based Community

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The Revenge of the Reality-Based Community

By Chris Ladd at the Houston Chronicle

http://blog.chron.com/goplifer/2016/03/the-revenge-of-the-reality-based-community/

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Facts are always elusive in politics, but they remain unalterable and non-negotiable. They may be misrepresented, distorted, or suppressed, but they never go away. Lies are fast and facts are slow, but what we borrow in the space between deception and reckoning will always be repaid with terrible interest.

The Republican Party chose to embrace an entire platform of fiction to protect an unstable coalition too brittle to bend and too dear to abandon. Simply put, our modern Republican alignment comes from our effort to recruit white supremacists. Our dissociation from the world of empirical reality rises from the ideology we adopted to obscure that compromise.

Race may not be the most important issue in American life, but it is the keystone of Republican politics. Reagan once said “There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers.” Republicans face a simple answer that is also brutally difficult. Reckon with the ghosts of our 20th century racial compromise and we can perhaps build a more sustainable future. Continue to ignore that tumor and the cancer will spread.

This is the revenge of the reality based community in a nutshell. We will either be what we were created to be – the Party of Lincoln – or we will soon cease to exist. We will pay our debt to reality, or we will be left helpless in the hands of the monster we created.




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1. GOP starting the talk about their parties intentional delusions. Wow!

[SunSeeker]

2. They sealed their fate when they chose the Southern Strategy.

At first it worked for them. But reality, and demographics, and time, are now working against them. The only thing that is keeping them in control in Congress is gerrymandering. That will end with the new census in 2020, if not sooner. They will have to change with the times to stay in office, but it means giving up who they are (religious and racial bigots) so I don't see how that can happen.

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3. at the risk of shitposting

everyone knows that the chronicle isn't a real paper
(this is me subtly encouraging DUers to stop posting their links)

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4. I'm posting because they are the delusion keepers openly talking

about how they have to give them up. I thought that was newsworthy.