Here We Are

found online by Raymond

 
From Dave Dubya:

Here we are at the precipice of a new American Dark Age.

The Trumpist Republicans are openly and shamelessly suppressing science. They are freezing grants, shutting down NASA climate research, and muzzling the scientific voices of the EPA and other agencies.

How is this making America great?

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7 thoughts on “Here We Are”

  1. So much for diversity in the DNC

    The 28 percent of Democrats who oppose abortion have no place in the Democratic party, according to two of the party’s leading figures.
    Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin echoed party chair Tom Perez Sunday in saying that there is no room in the party for dissent on the abortion issue.

    2. What on Earth does this have to do with Dave’s article? I know you got excited regurgitating the title of a Daily Caller article and then confused diversity in politics to mean diversity in platform rather than the diversity in people and backgrounds that most people mean when they refer to political diversity… but Dave’s article was about ignorance and disinformation within the electorate. Oh. Or were you just providing an example to support Dave’s point?

      1. As the behavior of Republicans in power has become more and more brazen and indefensible, Republican trolls in the blogosphere are more and more resorting to “change-the-subject trolling”. They can’t address the points made in the post they’re responding to, so they throw out random accusations in hopes of derailing discussion.

        Oh, and “diversity” in a political party doesn’t logically extend to opposition to core principles of that party, and women’s right to self-determination on abortion is such a principle.

        I don’t entirely agree with Dave’s point. His assessment of where the Republicans’ behavior is going is on target, but that behavior is being vigorously opposed by the public and by Democrats in Congress. This is a minority-rule regime put in place by gerrymandering, Russian interference, and freak effects of the Electoral College. It’s very unlikely to last past 2020, and its majorities in one or both houses of Congress may be gone in 2018. It can do damage in the meantime (though probably less than we fear, given its track record so far), but not make a really massive change in the direction of the country.

        The most lasting effect will likely be the abandonment of American leadership in science and technology. Other countries are already taking up leadership in the climate-change fight, for example, and even just two or four years of anti-science policies may well drive some percentage of US scientists to take their skills elsewhere where they can work more freely.

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