Denial

The strangest thing about the current era is that one of our major political parties has almost completely divorced itself from reality, facts, consequences, truth, etc. 

We aren't alone in this folly. Great Britain seems intent on Brexiting itself into Shrimpy England. Europe is roiled by racist fears of immigrants, although only one-half of one percent of Europe is made up of newcomers each year. 

Most immigrants enter Europe because they have been been hired by job recruiters. 

Still, no one is as dangerously anti-reality as our Republicans and their willingness to make the planet uninhabitable. Why?  My guess is that we went astray at the start, when we proclaimed ourselves a democracy, created a white male oligarchy and made slavery legal. That required an mountainous denial of reality. We added another denial, a belief that each of us will never die, in which case we have eternity in which to regret our blunders.

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