Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

Unfortunately, a nation of morons decided to use the Internet to “do their own research” in the stupidest way possible and then start electing people at least as stupid and as ignorant and as unqualified as they are. Because they’d rather have a beer with a loudmouth dumbass.

Having poindexters in office that might know a thing or two and have an education and experience and qualifications, or rely on such types before they go speaking out of turn is considered “elitist” by the same morons that think an alleged billionaire is NOT elitist. In the upside down universe of idiots, being one of the very few billionaires is not elitist, but having an education is. 🙄