{"id":1377,"date":"2004-11-03T16:23:37","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T20:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2004-11-03T16:23:37","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T20:23:37","slug":"wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Wishful thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I went to bed this morning, at about three, I was so sure<\/em> we had won; and so, I think, were the people on the BBC. <\/span> It seemed just, fitting, divinely ordained, almost. When I woke up at seven I felt I’d just trod on a rake.
\nWhen we recoil in horror from the people who voted Bush because — so far as we can see — they are blinded to overwhelming reality by fear and desire, we shouldn’t suppose that we’re immune.<\/p>\n\n

It seems absolutely clear that a large majority of the smart, well-educated and well-informed voted for Kerry and quite probably we thought we must win. The voters who suppose that Bush will prevail in his struggle with reality should be more prone to self-deception than we are. If we can’t even cure ourselves, why did we think they could somehow be cured?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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