Bruce Bartlett: Revenge of the Reality-Based Community-My life on the Republican right & and how...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

58. You seem to be afraid to read the article, perhaps because of where it is located. That is just like

You seem to be afraid to read Bartlett's article, the whole point of the Original Post, perhaps because of where it is located. That would be the same kind of bubble mistake the Republicans make who refuse to read the New York Times.

If you had read the article, you would realize that your wish was answered before you posed it. The author is "much clearer than to sell Obama being center right". Though you may disagree with his label, it is only a label and it is a tiny part of the article, and disproving that point would not disturb his central thesis at all.

If you had read the article, you wouldn't be making the mistake of calling the whole article "BULLSHIT".

You too can be brave enough to read a conservative publication. The article is in the The American Conservative. Here's an excerpt (emphasis added):

Not one person had read it or cared in the slightest what the New York Times had to say about anything. They all viewed it as having as much credibility as Pravda and a similar political philosophy as well. Some were indignant that I would even suspect them of reading a left-wing rag such as the New York Times.

I was flabbergasted. Until that moment I had not realized how closed the right-wing mind had become. Even assuming that my friends’ view of the Times’ philosophy was correct, which it most certainly was not, why would they not want to know what their enemy was thinking? This was my first exposure to what has been called [font color="red"]“epistemic closure”[/font] among conservatives—living in their own bubble where nonsensical ideas circulate with no contradiction.

Don't make the "Republicant" mistake. Read widely from all three or more sides. Yes you can.