Oh American darlings …

[blamebrampton]

I do feel for you. I have met so many smart, serious and intellectually curious citizens of the United States, and yet your political climate is so filled with people just like this one:

Suddenly the abject lunacy that surrounds health and science debates in your country has a whole new layer of horror attached. And thanks to Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content for the URL.

I'm off to see whether having a sore knee is a good enough excuse for wagging work now that hideous deadline has passed. A few laps of the hall ought to settle my conscience one way or the other.

Comments

[timeasmymeasure.livejournal.com]

IT'S THE GAY!!!
ALL THE HOMOSEXUALS ARE CAUSING THE WATER TO SPOUT RAINBOWS!!

I don't even-what?
Sadly this is the state of general knowledge, and the politicians appeal to this base and raise them into a frenzy over issues they've no comprehension on.
*sigh*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the thing that drives me crazy. I know that 9/10 Americans are sane and smart (even though science education around the world is a bit dismal, but that's another rant). But so often you see policy made and conveyed as a reaction to lunatics like her. When the woman with the Nazi Health Policies poster and her ilk started ranting at health care reform meetings, even Democrats started talking about abandoning public heath care. The pollies should all have just treated them like the idiots they are, hurrah for Barney Frank!

[timeasmymeasure.livejournal.com]

Barney Frank became a lot of people's political hero that day. I think it had just gotten to a point where intellectual debate, real facts, LOGIC, wasn't really getting through to them and verbal smackdown was the only option left.

This insistence of compromise with ignorance is mind boggling. I just don't understand why they're still trying to "reach across party lines". It's pretty clear where everyone's position is.

JUST. GET. THIS. DONE.