Denialogues

Journalist George Monbiot’s term for those who adopt an ideology of denial.

Conceding that denial has its place, and that “without denial there is no hope,” George Monbiot recently argued in The Guardian:

But some people make a doctrine of it. American conservatism could be described as a movement of denialogues, people whose ideology is based on disavowing physical realities. This applies to their views on evolution, climate change, foreign affairs and fiscal policy. The Vietnam war would have been won, were it not for the pinko chickens at home. Saddam Hussein was in league with al-Qaida. Everyone has an equal chance of becoming C.E.O. Universal healthcare is a communist plot. Segregation wasn’t that bad. As one of George Bush’s aides said: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”