Many voters among the Republican and Democratic parties might be characterized as "anti-science." The GOP tends to skew towards climate-change denial, denial of evolution and an "old" Earth, some real medical disinformation in the name of promoting religious ideology, and some vaccination skepticism. The Democrats seem to tend to skew towards medical/diet/environmental woo: baseless anti-GMO fear-mongering, some anti-vaccination, some aspects of the nuclear power debate.
Both sides also have anti-fluoridation whackos. Take from that what you will.
Yet there is a fundamental difference. Among these two groups, it is only the GOP that has anti-science nutbars sitting on Congressional committees, and spewing their base idiocy from Capitol Hill. We've got some real nuts over here on the left, but our nuts aren't chairing the House Science Committee.
So yeah, at the end of the day, people are people, and you're going to have people of all kinds in every group. But only one group keeps (gleefully, I might add) electing these ignoramuses to national office.
(And while nuts on both sides have led to a shameful measles outbreak here in the U.S., it's primarily one side's nuts that are refusing to act to prevent future droughts, famines, scarcity wars, and potential human extinction.)
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Date: 3/2/15 19:10 (UTC)Both sides also have anti-fluoridation whackos. Take from that what you will.
Yet there is a fundamental difference. Among these two groups, it is only the GOP that has anti-science nutbars sitting on Congressional committees, and spewing their base idiocy from Capitol Hill. We've got some real nuts over here on the left, but our nuts aren't chairing the House Science Committee.
So yeah, at the end of the day, people are people, and you're going to have people of all kinds in every group. But only one group keeps (gleefully, I might add) electing these ignoramuses to national office.
(And while nuts on both sides have led to a shameful measles outbreak here in the U.S., it's primarily one side's nuts that are refusing to act to prevent future droughts, famines, scarcity wars, and potential human extinction.)