A friend read this blog the other day, and told me I am overreacting. I don't think that's true.
I really do think that we are in a fight for our lives, so far figuratively, but I don't rule out literally.
More importantly, I think we need to act as though this is life or death, becuase that is the only way we can disturb the political complacency of marginal Bush voters, i.e. those people who voted for Bush on the basis of the "stong leader" metric, but don't agree with him on abortion, social security, gay marriage, etc.
We need to convince the moderate middle in America that their needs, both financial and social, are better served when Democrats are in power. This is harder than it should be, given that we have historical fact on our side.
It's time to bring the 30% of America in the middle into the fold of the reality based community.
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"reality based community" as in how it was mentioned in a New York Times article I recently read?
I really thought that article was quite shocking with things in it like (about reality based community):
'The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."'
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html
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