ANOTHER REASON WHY IT ALL MATTERS

Yes, the hype over the hope is dissipating, and some in the media seem anxious to blow past the honeymoon and demand a cabinet, staff and a program though inauguration is 2 1/2 months from now. History has been made, and the hysterical cries of “socialism” and “Commie” have been, if only for a short while, stilled or stalled.

But in this context it is important to recall an equally important reason why this result is so important, so meaningful, and so necessary:



IN 2004 a senior, unnamed aide to the Bush Administration told the New York Times writer Ron Suskind that guys such as Suskind were "in what we call the reality-based community". The aide defined this as comprising people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality".

"That's not the way the world really works any more," the aide continued. "We are an empire now,

















and when we act, we create our own reality.




















































And while you are studying reality judiciously, as you will,




















we'll act again, creating new realities,


















which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.


We are history's actors,



















and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do."



Yeah, and you might have gotten away with too,



if it hadn’t a been for them meddlin’ kids.