Comments on: Truth Defeats Truthiness: Election 2012 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/11/truth-defeats-truthiness-election-2012/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 By: susanai http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/11/truth-defeats-truthiness-election-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-26192 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:47:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=16439#comment-26192 Karl Rove was comical at first but imagine how Romney would have been governed if he’d won. The real possibility was America being ruled by Fox proxy. Shuddering thought.

]]> By: Scott http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/11/truth-defeats-truthiness-election-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-26145 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:39:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=16439#comment-26145 One of the most satisfying aspects of Obama’s victory, for me more satisfying than the fact that Obama is still president, is after 4 years of telling the public that a circle was fact a square, those efforts of Republicans, Fox News, and the Koch brothers failed, and failed big time. That they failed though is no big surprise; as Colbert also has said,”Reality has a well known liberal bias.” I look forward to a more sane political atmosphere in the coming years, and the outcome of the “Fiscal Cliff” negotiations should be very telling as too whether this optimism is warranted or not.

Also during the negotiations it will also be important to keep an eye on whether “a free public life, where people with different identities and principles meet between left and right” becomes more predominate, or whether whether there is another return to the contentiousness that surrounded the “Obama Care” negotiations. Will the Tea Party take to the streets in defense of tax cuts for the rich? If indeed there has been a (perhaps forced) return to the middle for Conservatives, then my guess is the answer to that question is no.

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