Republican strategist Karl Rove in 2002 notoriously disparaged “the reality-based community [who] believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality”. He continued: “That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you …
Tag: Centrism
Feb 04 2013
The illusion of the reasonable centre
- By James Wight in Climate, Climate Politics, Greenwash, Media, Politics, Strategy
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