The US’s elites, but esp. the liberal side, simply no longer believe that there is a reality that cannot be made to conform to one’s wishes. They really do think that good intentions are enough, and good things always follow from good intentions. You see it in their approach to both domestic and foreign matters, and in their criticizing the opposition not on the basis of inferior results but impure motives (racism, not wanting good things, etc.).

Results no longer matter to them.

So, looking good on camera or giving a nice self-esteemy pep-talk counts for more than actually supporting and empowering those whom we depend on, and who in turn depend on the leaders.

I include much of the top echelon of the US’s intelligence, counterintelligence, and foreign affairs bureaucracies. I hope all those people at CIA who leaked and connived to bring down Bush are happy with what they got. Cold comfort for me to see how they screwed their own agency, but something.

‘Al Qaeda is just a few primitives in caves’ because we want them to be that. Iran or Syria or Saudi money have nothing to do with it… sure. A guy almost blows up a plane and Obama’s first reaction is to call it isolated even tho it’s obvious someone either taught him how to make the explosive sor, more likely, fitted him out—so there was some sort of support network and “isolated” makes no logical sense.

The health care monstrosity will better everyone’s lot because we want it to. The Stimulus bill created jobs because we wanted it to. AGW exists and is an existential threat, but CO2 restrictions can painlessly solve it. On and on. History, experience, facts, and logic count for nothing… even, less than nothing, because to raise them indicates one is not believing strongly enough. So in raising them one is interfering with progress by faith.

We have some strange brew of Tinkerbelle plus Marx in charge in Washington. Just believe hard enough and it will be so. If not, it’s because someone had doubts, they must be found and either expunged or re-educated. That’s the current US government.

I don’t know how it’ll crash and burn, or how bad it will be. Some BCers are pretty apocalyptic.

But if this goes on long enough, it will inevitably lead to some very, very bad things. Reality cannot be denied indefinitely.

I am not an engineer but I’ve worked with quite a few, and one expression of Murphy’s Law is “Nature sides with the hidden flaw,” which means in any system if there is a flaw it will eventually be tested and the system found wanting. A government unable to deal with reality or logic or think in terms of purposes and ends (rather than intentions and appearances) must eventually encounter disaster.