“dealing with the world as it is and not as we wish it were.”
I agree that this is a very strange thing to say, indeed.
Call me optimistic, but I want to vote for a government that spends it time striving to make the world ‘as we wish it were’ rather than ‘dealing with the world as it is’.
I’m currently a floating voter trying to establish which party to paddle towards. And I must say that that comment has made me float in the opposite direction some what.