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3. Thank you for the input

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 18, 2017, 12:31 PM

Sep 2017

I have often felt sorry for people looking for magics, for gurus, for something to fill their lives. I have felt sorry for them that they were having difficulty with reality that they were looking for alternatives not based in facts.

The trouble starts when they want to impose their alternative reality on the rest of us, and when we have a president for whom facts are something that one can use or ignore, then we are in trouble.

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Book Review explaining Trump: "Fantasyland," by Kurt Andersen [View all] question everything Sep 2017 OP

I'm about 2/3 through it, and it's really interesting. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #1

Thank you for the input question everything Sep 2017 #3

Not buying it. In *any* era people who didn't believe in objective reality were batshit crazy. Girard442 Sep 2017 #2