Rachel Maddow was right....sorry about that.
Ohio really did go to President Obama
last night. And he really did win. And he really was born in Hawaii.
And he really is legitimately President of the United States. Again.
And the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not make up a fake unemployment
rate last month. And the Congressional Research Service really can find
no evidence that cutting taxes on rich people grows the economy. And
the polls were not skewed to oversample Democrats. And Nate Silver was
not making up fake projections about the election to make conservatives
feel bad. Nate Silver was doing math. And climate change is real. And
rape really does cause pregnancy sometimes. And evolution is a thing!
And Benghazi was an attack ON us, it was not a scandal BY us. And
nobody is taking away anyone's guns. And taxes have not gone up. And
the deficit is dropping, actually. And Saddam Hussein did not have
weapons of mass destruction. And the moon landing was real. And FEMA
is not building concentration camps. And UN election observers are not
taking over Texas. And moderate reforms of the regulations on the
insurance industry and the financial services industry in this country
are not the same thing as Communism.
Listen. Last night was a good night for liberals and for Democrats for very obvious reasons. But it was also, possibly, a good night for this country as a whole. Because in this country we have a two party system, in government. And the idea is supposed to be that the two sides both come up with ways to confront and fix the real problems facing our country. They both propose possible solutions to our real problems. And we debate between those possible solutions. And by the process of debate, we pick the best idea. That competition between good ideas, from both sides, about real problems in the real country should result in our country having better choices, better options, than if only one side is really working on the hard stuff. And if the Republican party, and the conservative movement, and the conservative media is stuck in a vacuum sealed, door locked, spin cycle of telling each other what makes them feel good, and denying the factual, lived truth of the world, then we are all deprived, as a nation, of the constructive debate between competing, feasible ideas about real problems.
Last night the Republicans got shellacked. And they had no idea it was coming. And we saw them, in real time, in real humiliating time, not believe it even as it was happening to them. And unless they're going to secede, they're going to have to pop the factual bubble they have been so happy living inside, if they do not want to get shellacked again. And that will be a painful process for them, I'm sure, but it will be good for the whole country - left, right, and center. You guys, we're counting on you. Wake up.
There's real problems in the world. There are real knowable facts in the world. Let's accept those and talk about how we might approach our problems differently. Let's move on from there. If the Republican party, and the conservative movement, and conservative media are forced to do that by the humiliation they were dealt last night, we will all be better off as a nation. And in that spirit, congratulations everybody. Big night.
Listen. Last night was a good night for liberals and for Democrats for very obvious reasons. But it was also, possibly, a good night for this country as a whole. Because in this country we have a two party system, in government. And the idea is supposed to be that the two sides both come up with ways to confront and fix the real problems facing our country. They both propose possible solutions to our real problems. And we debate between those possible solutions. And by the process of debate, we pick the best idea. That competition between good ideas, from both sides, about real problems in the real country should result in our country having better choices, better options, than if only one side is really working on the hard stuff. And if the Republican party, and the conservative movement, and the conservative media is stuck in a vacuum sealed, door locked, spin cycle of telling each other what makes them feel good, and denying the factual, lived truth of the world, then we are all deprived, as a nation, of the constructive debate between competing, feasible ideas about real problems.
Last night the Republicans got shellacked. And they had no idea it was coming. And we saw them, in real time, in real humiliating time, not believe it even as it was happening to them. And unless they're going to secede, they're going to have to pop the factual bubble they have been so happy living inside, if they do not want to get shellacked again. And that will be a painful process for them, I'm sure, but it will be good for the whole country - left, right, and center. You guys, we're counting on you. Wake up.
There's real problems in the world. There are real knowable facts in the world. Let's accept those and talk about how we might approach our problems differently. Let's move on from there. If the Republican party, and the conservative movement, and conservative media are forced to do that by the humiliation they were dealt last night, we will all be better off as a nation. And in that spirit, congratulations everybody. Big night.
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One thing that makes it hard for people to believe the
Christian pastor or teacher is when they make up lies in order to try to prove
their point. To make up your own set of
facts is not helping. Being known for
conspiracies is not helping. To say the
polls are wrong when they do not agree with your set of facts is just wrong and
not helpful.
Too many people are beginning to look at evangelicals and
more so with fundamentalist as gullible and conspiracy-spreading
Christians. The perceptions that conservatives
have is not helping at all. Many just believe that evangelicals are simply
without willingness to face truth.
I have read more lies about President Obama then I care
about, and I thought Christians were not to spread lies.
If unchurched people think they must commit intellectual
suicide to become a Christi, it hinders the work of gospel proclamation and
cultural engagement.
Let this sink in. Christians are not to spread conspiracy in
order to try to change peoples mind.
Rachel Maddow was right…… on Obama’s Re-election Perception is bad.
