I had a post about Ms. Bachmann's musings on the Swine Flu, and her question why were both innoculation programs done during the administrations of Democratic Presidents: President Obama and (here we can only assume what she meant) President Carter.
Since I had gone to the County Health Department's "Needle Park" both times for my inoculation against "Captain Tripps" (a Stephen King name for the mother of all flus), I recalled that the inoculation of long ago and far away was done in the administration of President Ford, who happened to be a Republican from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
It is not a big deal to get the details wrong.
However, it is a big deal to think that you spy a hidden "logical" connection between concepts and dimly perceive what might pass as some cause-and-effect. It leads to an obscure scenario of politics and power that reeks of meaning so intensely, that it becomes an minor article of a minor faith in a person's arsenal of belief, thereby creating an "alternate reality": to be precise, the Alternate Reality wherein President Carter, not President Ford, called for swine flu inoculations.
Ms. Bachmann felt an intense yet unclear connection between swine flu and a political party she identifies as her opponent, so much so that she let herself believe - although probably briefly - that there was such an alternate reality and there might be something sinister about swine flu vaccine in that alternate universe.
We all do this.
It is important to realize it, and for us to constantly "negotiate" with Reality to come to a commonly agreed upon representation of:
(1) Reality, and
(2) Ourselves within it.
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