Reality-Based Community

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Reality-Based Community was originally used as a derisive term by members of the George W. Bush Administration for those people foolish enough to think back in 2002 that a Post-Saddam Iraq might be messy.^{[citation needed]} It has since been adopted by those it describes as a badge of honor.

Ron Suskind shared this term with the rest of the world in a New York Times article.^[1]

An unnamed senior adviser to Bush clarified that Reality-Based Community refers to people who believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality, judiciously, as you will, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.[1]

As this statement expresses original thought, the Bush adviser most likely to have said it was Karl Rove. However it's impossible to be certain of this, as Mr. Suskind did not mention if the adviser ran off in order to get urinated on by Jeff Gannon.^{[citation needed]}