"Realism" and the Triumph of the Will

You would think that "realism" as a political outlook or philosophy would be grounded in reality but it's not. Actually it's code language and cloaking for cynicism, preemption and the imposition of the will of one person or group on another. 

Since "paranoia" has bad connotations the Kissinger/Cheney school of thought has always marketed their thuggery in laundered terms, with the self-justification of necessity. Now, upon its utter failure, they have whitewashed the results.

And it has been partly rebranded as "neo-liberalism" and other things, fleeing responsibility for the catastrophic effects of its earlier implementation. The real underpinnings of the philosophy are rooted in delusion and personality flaws.

As such the dark origins of it, in whatever guise, are again self-justifying and circular. The whole thing is nothing but a tail-chasing club but not in a Roger Ailes kind of way. The former "realists" are trying to find their own asses, not someone else's.