Down The Rabbit Hole

David Orr, a professor at Oberlin College, has written an essay titled "The Imminent Demise of the Republican Party".

Beneath the noisy spin of its media echo chamber, the true
platform of the Republican Party, its future epitaph, is founded on denial.
The rules of the Republican Party of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove,
Tom Delay, and their brethren are these:

• Deny science when its findings are not agreeable to your base.
  Republicans, notably, are on the wrong side of the largest issue in human
  history: human driven, rapid climate change. They’ve chosen instead to live
  in a Crichton-esque science fiction fantasy in which real science has no
  standing and human actions have no tragic, irreversible, and global
  ecological consequences. This is not just boneheaded, it is a form of
  criminality for which we have, as yet, no adequate words.
  
• Deny the looming approach of peak oil extraction thereby advancing the
  potential of economic, political, and social chaos when global oil supply
  and demand diverge as soon they will.
  
• Deny the proven potential of superior technologies, design strategies,
  and policies that would move the country toward energy efficiency and a
  secure energy base of solar and wind power as well as the reasons of
  self-interest and economic advantage for doing so.
  
• Deny the true costs of air and water pollution thereby undermining the
  health of Americans.
  
• Deny the human and economic effects of pandering to the wealthy, thereby
  undermining social cohesion and the sense of fairness?historically, often a
  prelude to societal breakdown and revolution.
  
• Deny any and all mistakes, bad judgment, and corruption, relying on spin
  not truth and thereby building a solid reputation for mendacity and
  incompetence.
  
• Deny the limitations of military power to impose order on a recalcitrant
  world and thereby condemn the U.S. to a future of international isolation,
  conflict, and endless terrorism.
  
• Deny the great vulnerability of the American infrastructure to malice,
  malfeasance, and acts of God, thereby laying the groundwork for a future of
  recurring disasters.
  
• Deny the necessity for civil discourse, honesty, and transparency in the
  conduct of public life, thereby holding the citizenry in contempt and
  promoting a spirit of meanness.
  
• Deny without admitting it the democratic values of the country enshrined
  in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights,
  the Gettysburg Address, and the Four Freedoms of Franklin Roosevelt,
  thereby undermining democracy at home while purportedly fighting for it in
  Iraq.
  

When you look at reasoning like this, it just makes me shake my head because it is so PLAIN and SIMPLE.  It’s maddening that more than 60 million people in this country voted for an administration that is so backasswards.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - I just don’t get it.