Maybe Romney actually sees backward in time--not living backward in time, like Merlin, but living normally and seeing it backward, from consequences to causes--the shattered glass springs from the floor, unites over the table, makes contact with the elbow, and comes to rest!
Or, more relevantly, Kim announces the tragic breakup and then retires with Kris to their hideaway, from which they emerge at last to make their vows, while Obama simply sails back, back, back to the 2008 campaign.
In fact...
In fact maybe that's the whole conservative point of view--not reactionary but retroactionary, so to speak!
Like consider the way conservatives worship the U.S. Constitution. To the rest of us, it seems strange: representatives of the 13 confederated states get together to create a powerful central government and a national debt that's going to finance an industrial policy, what's for conservatives to like?
But if you imagine it backwards, it all starts to make sense: as the delegates back smiling out of the hall, anarchy begins to reign, the powerful do whatever they like, Shays and his rebellious vets slink out of the streets and back to their impoverished families, and eventually into uniform, and before you know it George III is King, the church and state are one, there's capital punishment for stealing a loaf of bread and imprisonment without trial for insulting his Majesty! The Constitution is the gateway to all this conservativity...
And in the same way Romney may have lost the future election--our memory of what's to come is so poor, who knows--but he does know that within a generation Ronald Reagan will be the president, so it's all worth it!
Or, more relevantly, Kim announces the tragic breakup and then retires with Kris to their hideaway, from which they emerge at last to make their vows, while Obama simply sails back, back, back to the 2008 campaign.
In fact...
In fact maybe that's the whole conservative point of view--not reactionary but retroactionary, so to speak!
Like consider the way conservatives worship the U.S. Constitution. To the rest of us, it seems strange: representatives of the 13 confederated states get together to create a powerful central government and a national debt that's going to finance an industrial policy, what's for conservatives to like?
But if you imagine it backwards, it all starts to make sense: as the delegates back smiling out of the hall, anarchy begins to reign, the powerful do whatever they like, Shays and his rebellious vets slink out of the streets and back to their impoverished families, and eventually into uniform, and before you know it George III is King, the church and state are one, there's capital punishment for stealing a loaf of bread and imprisonment without trial for insulting his Majesty! The Constitution is the gateway to all this conservativity...
And in the same way Romney may have lost the future election--our memory of what's to come is so poor, who knows--but he does know that within a generation Ronald Reagan will be the president, so it's all worth it!
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