Unreal World

The New York Times' Nobel Prize winning Paul Krugman, writing about the conspiracy nonsense over the September jobs report:

"The furor over Friday’s report revealed a political movement that is rooting for American failure, so obsessed with taking down Mr. Obama that good news for the nation’s long-suffering workers drives its members into a blind rage. It also revealed a movement that lives in an intellectual bubble, dealing with uncomfortable reality — whether that reality involves polls or economic data — not just by denying the facts, but by spinning wild conspiracy theories."

With a large segment of the population living in a world of their own strange imagination and paranoia, and sabotaging economic recovery for political gain, it's hard to imagine a future in which we can deal as a society with our most pressing problems.