Strawberry Fields Forever is one of many Beatles hits, a nostalgic remembrance of a piece of land in Liverpool near where John Lennon grew up. A memorable bit of lyric, “Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see” reflects denial or lack of awareness of reality, because “nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.”
After this past week’s elections, by both results and Democrat reactions to the results, they appear to be in a state of denial, with eyes closed, misunderstanding the will of the voters and most Americans, doubling down on their policies and prescriptions for America.
Start with critical race theory, one of the major issues in school board elections nationwide and in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Former Bush Republican, now a Trump-hating liberal Democrat, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace declared that critical race theory “isn’t real.”