Political discussion thread

Subject: Is there an absolute reality?

Rush, the intellectual leader of the Party of Bush, says that it's OK to want Obama to fail because Democrats 
wanted Bush to fail.   Did Democrats want Bush to fail?   Absolutely!   Does that make it the same thing? Absolutely not! 
Even though it's true on the surface that the Democrats fought against Bush the way Rush is fighting Obama, there is a 
big difference and that difference is reality.

Many of us on the Left believe in an absolute reality. We believe reality actually exists. Many of us are monorealistic 
in that we believe in the one true reality that we all live in. That we live in a world where what is true is different than 
what is false. We believe in cause and effect. We believe that if you make the wrong choices that you are likely to 
suffer the consequences.

Many on the Right don't believe in an absolute reality. They think reality is all in the mind and that the consequences 
of your actions don't matter. They believe that if you convince enough people to believe something that it replaces reality. 
For the last 8 years we had a president who turned his back on reality and reality is now punishing us for our sins. 
We are learning the hard way that bad choices have bad consequences. America has elected a new president who is 
dedicated to embracing reality and making reality our friend. There is a difference between right and wrong, between 
failure and success, and we have chosen to do it right and succeed. We Realists invite the Republicans to join us in 
embracing reality. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Reality changed my life, it can change your life too! 

Marc Perkel
San Bruno, CA.
 

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Last week's Conservative Political Action Committee in Washington offered a rich spectacle. Except it wasn't the usual 
sideshow barkers who provided the most bizarre entertainment; it was the headline speakers, notably Rush Limbaugh 
and Mike Huckabee. Between them, they made Bobby Jindal sound statesmanlike. 

ha ha

Jindal, after all, was merely pitching sweet feed to the cattle. But was it wise to argue that government doesn't work by 
citing Bush's feckless response to Katrina? To mock as wasteful the U.S. Geological Survey's monitoring of volcanoes? 
The same agency funds river gauges and tidal monitors, of interest to the Bayou State. Heck, why not throw in the 
do-nothing National Weather Service? Why watch the weather if you can't change it? 

Which brings us back to Limbaugh and Huckabee. Sweating like a draft horse, and appearing to have gained the 
hundredplus pounds that Huckabee famously lost, Limbaugh all but anointed himself titular head of the GOP. 
OK, so he's never held office or participated in open debate. Where an ordinary mind might be daunted by the 
spectacular economic wreckage left behind by George W. Bush, Limbaugh's is an other-worldly doctrine.