Disingenuous critiques of the President and his policies

[patrice]

1. There is an interestingly high proportion of people about who appear to think that just saying

anything makes it so. Rationalism and logic apparently no longer matter. In fact, if you bring up empiricism and logic, you might get attacked for that alone.

Understandable desperation, alone, may not be the explanation, as facts countering despair don't appear to matter either.

We saw this in 2008, 2010, and it's spreading.