The Coalition of the Reality Based

[BurtWorm]

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/18/disillusioned_republicans/print.html


"You can't run the world on faith"
Some Reagan conservatives decry Bush's "Messianic" approach and preference for dogma over evidence.

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By James K. Galbraith



And how are these three Reagan conservatives <Bruce Bartlett, Paul Craig Roberts, and Jude Wanniski> going to vote this year? I don't know. I haven't asked them. And so far as I know they haven't said in public. But their recent words speak powerfully to the emerging political divide in America today. It isn't left against right, rich against poor or North against South. It's reason against certitude. It's evidence against dogma. It's a willingness to argue facts against a refusal to brook doubt.

Welcome to the coalition of the reality-based.

[mumon]

1. Proud member of the Reality-based Community (RBC)

That's me.

[Robbien]

2. the anti-Bush coalition may at last found a unifying theme

We are proud members of the Reality-Based Community. On the other side is, well, the other guys. (Yglesias)

Atrios and some of the others are adding Reality Based Community to their websites.

[endnote]

4. AWESOME. I thought that WAS a unifying factor as well.

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3. Superproud member of the Reality-based community

[hippiechick]

5. Thank you Al Gore !

For mentioning that in yesterday's speech ! I was hoping someone would jump on it !!


:hippie: