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That's the fantasy-based curriculum Fox News has been teaching them for 25 years. Earth is flat? Sure, why not?
Like your avatar by the way 
Get a room!
and selling it on right-wing media like snake oil. It's a huge component of their bubble culture.
One of their original admissions:
Origin
The phrase was attributed by journalist Ron Suskind to an unnamed official in the George W. Bush Administration who used it to denigrate a critic of the administration's policies as someone who based their judgments on facts. In a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine, Suskind wrote:
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.' [...] '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'.
The source of the quotation was later identified as Bush's senior advisor Karl Rove, although Rove has denied saying it.
The phrase was attributed by journalist Ron Suskind to an unnamed official in the George W. Bush Administration who used it to denigrate a critic of the administration's policies as someone who based their judgments on facts. In a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine, Suskind wrote:
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.' [...] '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'.
The source of the quotation was later identified as Bush's senior advisor Karl Rove, although Rove has denied saying it.
Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
In other words, design and publish the reality you want and then force it into being - no matter how evil or impossible it might seem to a reality-based analysis.
KY........
