Hanging With Winguts in Their Well-Constructed Imaginary World

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BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 11/12/2007 3:38AM

Hanging With Winguts in Their Well-Constructed Imaginary World

Observations from the First 'BlogWorld & New Media Expo' in Las Vegas...
By Brad Friedman from somewhere in Nevada...

"The disconnect from reality was complete," writes Power Line's John Hindraker, in a post aptly headlined "In Another World."

That phrase, along with the headline of his post, featuring paranoid musings from his time on several panels in the "Political Track" at last week's BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, is perhaps the only point on which he and I can most certainly agree. That, and this phrase of his: "Disconnects this total can survive only inside an echo chamber."

Nailed it, John.

Perhaps out of necessity, perhaps out of desperation, perhaps out of the ample cowardice that seems at the core of their very political ideology these days, the wingnuts have created their very own version of reality, smack dab here in the middle of the United States of America. They couldn't take over the real America, at least not entirely, and at least not yet, so they've created their own country, replete with its own set of (ever-shifting) moral and ethical values, its own monetary system, its own set of political ideology, its own President, and its own media network including the crown jewel: its very own cable news channel.

In their Imaginary Land, a covert CIA agent who put her life at great risk for decades in service to her country, in hopes of keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iraq and Iran, is nothing more than "a glorified desk jockey."

[Demeter]

1. Oh Yeah! Hits the Nail on the Head!

Don't you wish we could send them to their imaginary world and cut it loose from our reality?

[donsu]

2. we need to smash their fantasy to pieces

nt

[tomreedtoon]

3. Guess what? We ALL gravitate to our fantasy worlds.

Need I point out the attitude here on DU that the Republicans absolutely, positively, can't win the next election? Or the common belief her that it doesn't matter who hates Clinton for being a woman or who hates Obama for being black? (Or who hates Edwards for being good-looking, or who hates Kucinich for looking like a geek and having a knockout wife?)

These are petty matters for people here; they are EVERYTHING for people outside the DU bubble. And just calling those people "stupid" doesn't invalidate their votes.

We all live in our own bubble worlds. We all see life through our own-colored lenses. We need to break out occasionally, and recognize the universe does not revolve around us or the ideas we share with others.