I have this irrational penchant for assuming we humans will, eventually, let our better angels of empathy and rationality win out in the long run. This plays to that aspect of my psychology.
Of course, there are so many other reasons not to vote for Republicans that you don’t need to point out the fact that it’s been completely and thoroughly awash in scientific denialism for decades and fix that alone to get me to consider them rational actors on the political stage. You’d also have to untie them from religious zelaotry and magical thinking about economic factors and war hawkishness… et cetera, et cetera.
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The Ys
January 13, 2012 at 11:37 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
And Stephen Colbert got more votes than Huntsman.
Colbert might win the nomination if he keeps this up.
niftyatheist
January 13, 2012 at 11:38 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well, jeez when you put it like that…
Why do you have to be so mean about the Republicans, Jason?
Brownian
January 13, 2012 at 11:51 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yeah. I betcha if you said something real nice about Stephen Harper he and the rest of the conservatives would cross the floor and Olivia Chow would be PM.
Jason Thibeault
January 13, 2012 at 11:52 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Let’s test that.
Stephen Harper has very nice hair and excellent diction.
Brownian
January 13, 2012 at 2:49 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
[Looks at watch, realises hasn't worn one in decades, looks at smartphone.]
Maybe it just takes a little more time.
Daniel M.
January 13, 2012 at 3:37 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I see the global warming thing being used as a way for the government to impose for tyranny and control more of our behavior. The EPA is already destroying trucking companies in California for reasons they can never really define.
I think one doesn’t have to necessarily deny global warming, but they can deny that it is coming from our carbon emissions without being ridiculed.
Wayne
January 13, 2012 at 5:27 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Difficult to know whether to headdesk or facepalm.
Rixaeton
January 13, 2012 at 5:44 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
What, as opposed to the PATRIOT act, TSA security theatre, secret renditions and in general getting ‘W’ re-elected because it would be “unpatriotic” to vote out a sitting president during a war (on terror no less)? It seems to me that there are a lot easier ways to control the people than using valid science; making up WMDs, for example.
'Tis Himself, OM.
January 13, 2012 at 7:00 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Do you think the Global Warming Fairy waves his magic wand and the atmosphere just warms up?
feralboy12
January 14, 2012 at 4:53 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Already? After a measly 39 years?