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Ever since the rise of the Tea Party, the Republican Party has developed an allergy to science – especially any science related to climate or environmental protection. They have been called the “Anti-Science Party” and “Luddites,” even by prominent members of their own party. Lately, they have even trumpeted that “they are not scientists,” apparently in a tortured attempt to glorify their ignorance.
Rivaling their allergy to science is their disdain for federal agencies that use science to make rules they don’t like, based on science – the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the US Department of Agriculture, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Bureau of Land Management – and just about anything that represents “big government.” So the rise of a Republican campaign that represents the exact opposite of their professed ideology is worth taking note of.
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AS a country grows bigger, population wise, it takes a bigger government to oversee those billionaires who would do anything load their pockets with disregard for human health. We need more regulators and regulations with the authority and strength of will to use that authority to overthrow those who would harm humans all over the world, which is happening because of the large agro-tech industry’s use of GMO’s and pesticides. Those on the right who oppose legislation which would help the people of our country and the other species who live here, and also have rights, is an abysmal failure of their understanding of the issues they simply fail to understand. Their ignorance will kill us all, if we do not stand up and say the truth is what matters.
Ignorance is it’s own punishment, and wisdom is it’s own reward.