Courtesy of Belvedere.
...Live reality was treated as a perversion or caricature of “genuine”
reality, believed to lurk invisible behind appearances and waiting to be
set free by the Revolution. This attitude would enable the
intelligentsia to accept as true propositions at total variance with
demonstrable fact as well as common sense…. To understand the behavior
of the intelligentsia it is imperative to keep in mind at all times its
deliberate detachment from reality: for while the revolutionaries can be
ruthlessly pragmatic in exploiting, for tactical purposes, the people’s
grievances, their notion of what the people desire is the product of
sheer abstraction. Not surprisingly, when they come to power,
revolutionary intellectuals immediately seize control of the means of
information and institute a tight censorship: for it is only by
suppressing free speech that they can impose their “sur-reality” on
ordinary people bogged down in the quagmire of facts...--D Pipes
Pipes was describing the Russian Revolution's Lefty Intellectualoids.
Has a familiar ring, no?
The concentration of Progressive Thinkers in DC (and in many State capital cities) results in this dissociation problem. It's not surprising, thus, to read of "strange new respect" afforded to solons who ran 'conservative' but in only a few years of office-holding, begin to vote--even to think-and-speak--"progressive."
Paul Ryan is becoming an example; Rubio's time-line was much shorter; but look at the really damaged goods: McCain, e.g.
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