For new converts to the Reality-Based Community....

[alfreda89]

Jane Smiley explains to the newly converted a few hard truths about their transition from the faith-based community to join those of us who haven't liked Bush from day one:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/notes-for-converts_b_17662.html

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"1. Bush doesn't know you disagree with him. Nothing about you makes you of interest to George W. Bush once you no longer agree with and support him. No degree of relationship (father, mother, etc.), no longstanding friendly intercourse (Jack Abramoff), no degree of expertise (Brent Scowcroft), no essential importance (Tony Blair, American voters) makes any difference. There is nothing you have to offer that makes Bush want to know you once you have come to disagree with him. Your opinions and feelings now exist in a world entirely external to the mind of George W. Bush. You are now just one of those "polls" that he pays no attention to. When you were on his side, you thought that showed "integrity" on his part. It doesn't. It shows an absolute inability to learn from experience."