Fundamentalism And Palin

Great post at The Daily Dish regarding Palin, Bush, religious fundamentalism and how they deal with reality. Reflecting on a reader's letter on how Palin has created her own version of reality, Andrew Sullivan writes:

"The first chapter of my book on how conservatism destroyed itself in America is called "The Fundamentalist Psyche." I don't think you can understand what happened under Bush and what Palin represents unless you grapple with the mindset that can deny empirical truth in favor of Divine Truth.

The resistance to debate, the inability to see your own faults and errors, your final surrender to the will of the Almighty as a way to cope with the massive errors involved in your own management of the material world: this is Bush's world and Palin's world.

Their magical thinking, combined with the mainstream media's defensive crouch, made a great deal possible. And Cheney took advantage."

Faith is great, but fact is better. Thinking God gives you the answers is harmless when your Granny is talking about playing lotto, but it is by no means the way Government should arrive at answers to truly complex problems.

Source: Andrew Sullivan