Stephan: Nearly 200 years ago Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “America is still the place where the Christian religion has kept the greatest real power over men’s souls." That was true in 1831, and it is true in 2015. The difference is Christianity has morphed into something quite different from what de Tocqueville experienced. The America he saw cherished education, valued it. Today about 95 million Americans, constituting the corporatist Theocratic Right, who have captured Christianity, specifically are willfully ignorant and will go to great lengths to remain so. Here is the proof, if proof were needed.
It is a measure of the power of collective intentioned awareness. A well-organized minority holding a collective even though nonsensical worldview has captured the social gestalt to a wildly disproportionate degree. Even in the face of overwhelming defining their policies as more expensive, more destructive, less efficient, and creating a degradation of social wellness.
Getting close to the end of the road? Thank you, House GOP.
Credit: TNS
Living down to our worst expectations, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology voted Thursday to cut deeply into NASA’s budget for Earth science, in a clear swipe at the study of climate change.
The committee’s markup of the NASA authorization bill for fiscal 2016 and 2017 passed on a party-line vote, Republicans in the majority. The action followed what appears to be a deliberate attempt to keep Democrats out of the loop. According to Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), the committee’s ranking Democrat, her caucus “did not even know [the markup] existed before last Friday. … After we saw the bill, we understood why.”
It’s hard to believe that in order to serve an ideological agenda, the majority is willing to slash the science that helps us have a better understanding of our planet. – Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas)
As outlined by Marcia Smith at SpacePolicyOnline, the […]
