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Jan. 29, 2023 - Lionel Nation

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Realism

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	One of the questions which I have been asked, and I'm sure you've been asked and will be asked, is what exactly is your political philosophy?
	What are you?
	What's the name of it?
	And we're stuck with Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, libertarian, anarcho-syndicalist, progressive, and then the pejoratives that each side or size will level against the other.
	So it's a combination of all of these ideas all kind of amalgamated into one, this sort of thing.
	And I...
	Since I can remember, since I began doing this kind of professional political commentary in 1988, maybe, I've always said, no, the name doesn't apply.
	These words don't apply.
	They don't really get to the basis.
	Until not too long ago, a number of years ago, I became aware, Of the term that best describes me and what I believe.
	And I want to share it with you.
	And I believe, upon careful consideration, you will agree it probably describes you as well.
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	All right, dear friend.
	As stated, as stated, I have been trying for the longest time to deal with this notion of what is it that you are?
	What does it mean?
	This, you know, this...
	What version of your political ideology, if there is such a thing?
	And this is, as you know, something that human beings love to do.
	We love to put people into categories.
	What do you believe?
	What's your faith?
	What kind of music do you like?
	How would you describe your worldview, your fashion sense, etc., etc.?
	Well, mine, the best term for me is realism.
	And if you think about it, you're thinking, that's a term?
	That's a term.
	That explains it?
	Oh yes.
	And realism is so beautiful when you look at it, and when you look at it in perimateria, if you will, with realpolitik, or realpolitik, which is defined as politics based on practical objectives, Rather than on ideals.
	And I love the idea of how this deals with this that which is real.
	And realpolitik again.
	And there's many, many iterations of it.
	Many, many versions of this.
	Something that deals primarily on considerations of given circumstances and realities.
	Not What the theory is realism.
	Realism in terms of art.
	Very simple.
	This is a bowl of fruit.
	It looks like this.
	I am replicating that which it is.
	I'm not giving you some interpretive version of what it should be.
	It's not a cubist version.
	It's not anything along those lines.
	The notion of realpolitik It refers to, of course, engaging, and it's usually spoken of as well in terms of foreign policy, but engaging in practical policies based on considerations of given circumstances,
	factors, rather than looking at ideological notions or moral and ethical considerations the way it is.
	Think of this in terms of you being a pathologist and you're diagnosing a disease or you're diagnosing a condition and you're telling the patient not whether they deserved this, not whether they warranted this, not whether they needed this, not whether they should have had this, or not whether they are responsible, not whether they caused this.
	But what is it?
	Is it?
	Is it death?
	Yes or no.
	Is it pregnancy?
	Yes or no.
	Is it cancer?
	Yes or no.
	That's it.
	I don't care why.
	I don't care.
	The reasons for it.
	You know, sometimes people have talked about, and I've heard this before.
	In fact, I have a friend of mine who's a medical school professor, and not the joke, but the pat answer was, what causes cancer?
	Is it environmental?
	Is it inherent?
	Is it genetic?
	Is it predisposed?
	Is it combinations thereof?
	And the answer is yes, meaning it's everything.
	I look at politics.
	I look at a situation based upon what it is.
	What are the ramifications?
	What do we deal with?
	How do we ultimately fix it?
	My sense of politics, and yours probably as well, is not just, well, let's just talk about it.
	No, you want to fix correct, based upon what you think is correct and what you think is fixable.
	Does it matter?
	Whether this is a democratic issue, a republican issue, a libertarian issue, no, you want to fix it.
	Whether it's crime or energy or whatever your consideration, you want to look at it for what it is, for what it actually is, what it actually represents, and not what it theoretically is.
	Not what it...
	Maybe is.
	Or based upon a frame of reference from the past.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	It doesn't work that way.
	It doesn't work that way.
	If we could somehow get through a discussion Where we were only instrument rated, meaning where we looked at what was actually before us, what we saw on the instrument panel itself,
	and not that which we wanted to say that comported with the usual nomenclature of our friends, the usual way of thinking, the way normal commentators and the like.
	Proceed with us.
	If we could do this, how glorious it would be.
	How glorious.
	I've done this so much before when I've talked to people about music.
	I've always loved what I call country music.
	I never worried about it.
	You mean bluegrass?
	Do you mean Bill Monroe?
	Do you mean honky-tonk, lefty Frizzell?
	Do you mean more rockabilly?
	Do you mean, is it more...
	Fundamental is a more earnest tub.
	Jimmy Rogers, rather.
	Oh, Jimmy Walker.
	George Jones.
	Do you mean more, perhaps, more, you know, Western swing, kind of Bob Wills, Sleep at the Wheel, Ray Benson?
	Stop it!
	What are we doing?
	We're not listening to the music.
	We're too busy talking about what this thing is that we supposedly are talking about.
	That's all I want to do.
	I want to get to the essence, the gravamen of it.
	Not what you call it.
	Not what the word is.
	Not what the term is.
	And believe me, if we could do this, if you could say, I'm going to tell you what happened.
	This is what happened.
	And to then have somebody, and by the way, with that comes the exclusion of any kind of structured, I don't want to say bias, because bias is a term that is normally described by another party, if you will.
	But you want to figure out, in essence, how is this to be performed, in terms of the analysis of it, for what it actually is, and not Not what the popular version of this is.
	I'm sure you've heard me say this before, but one of the issues that always drives me nuts, and it's not a very long ride, admittedly, is when people say literally.
	As opposed to really.
	Literally.
	My eyes literally fell out of my head.
	No.
	No.
	And because we speak like this, over a period of time, the lack of precision, the imprecision, doesn't matter anymore.
	I was talking to the phone recently about a VIN, Vehicle Identification Number.
	And the parts department person was very astute because he says, what is the VIN?
	I said, by the way, thank you for not saying VIN number, because that's almost tautological, it's redundant.
	Vehicle identification number number.
	ATM machine.
	No, it's automatic telemachine machine.
	Things like that perhaps are priggish.
	Perhaps I'm too persnickety.
	Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.
	But it goes back to the fact that I'm a realist.
	And if you think about it, so are you.
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