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October 15, 2009 - 5:04 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2009-10-15 21:17:49

I was helping my daughter with her math tonight. We came to a problem which resulted in 6 = 3. I explained that that meant there was no solution, because 6 cannot equal 3. But then I told her, 6 can never equal 3 unless you’re a liberal. In which case, Hollywood will come out with TV shows and movies in which 6 always equals 3. And the news media will tell us that 6 does indeed equal 3. Then academics will give us the rationale that 6 has always equalled 3. In the minds of liberals it will then be true that 6 equals 3, because they have said it is so. And if you put up your hand and say, but 6 does not equal 3, then you will be laughed out of the room as a rube and an ignoramus.

The ‘elites’ are insisting that 6 = 3. That debt = wealth. That to solve the problem of bad mortgages being written one must write more bad mortgages. That the government can take over health care and actually save money while providing world class care. That standing by and merely wringing our hands while a terrorist nation acquires nuclear weapons will ‘bring peace’.

The biggest bubble that needs to be popped is the leftists fantasy bubble. They will learn that they cannot make something so by flooding the culture with fantasy until everyone believes it to be truth.

6 does not equal 3.