2004-11-04 The Day the Enlightenment Went Out

2004-11-04 New York Times Garry Wills \2004 US elections\Age of Enlightenment\neocon reality inversion http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/opinion/04wills.html The Day the Enlightenment Went Out &ldquo;This election confirms the brilliance of Karl Rove as a political strategist. He calculated that the religious conservatives, if they could be turned out, would be the deciding factor. The success of the plan was registered not only in the presidential results but also in all 11 of the state votes to ban same-sex marriage. Mr. Rove understands what surveys have shown, that many more Americans believe in the Virgin Birth than in Darwin's theory of evolution.&rdquo;   