I was just speechless when I read this, science committee..
Remember, these are elected representatives that serve on a federal committee for science and technology.
Couple that with one of the highest income inequalities in the world, highest teen pregnancies of any other developed nation as well as infant mortality rates, systemic effort to destroy public education, failing of infrastructure, oligarchy which made the banks too big to fail, jail and even fine. And most importantly very strong anti-intellectual hyper-superstitious culture, where any politician can't do a speech about any topic without mentioning some nebulous god creature.
As an outsider this looks very scary.
Is US becoming a third world country?
Moderators: NeilBlanchard, Ralf Hutter, sthayashi, Lawrence Lee
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Idiocy unfortunately is pandemic. Check out this interview Bill Maher had with a senator for his mockumentory Religulous. Suffice to say, the wasn't the sharpest tool in the box.Mettyx wrote:I was just speechless when I read this, science committee..
Remember, these are elected representatives that serve on a federal committee for science and technology.
Couple that with one of the highest income inequalities in the world, highest teen pregnancies of any other developed nation as well as infant mortality rates, systemic effort to destroy public education, failing of infrastructure, oligarchy which made the banks too big to fail, jail and even fine. And most importantly very strong anti-intellectual hyper-superstitious culture, where any politician can't do a speech about any topic without mentioning some nebulous god creature.
As an outsider this looks very scary.
Btw. you'll love the last sentence of that clip.
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Re: Is US becoming a third world country?
And don't you realize why this is happening?
Voltaire“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
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It's a full spectrum race to the bottom. Few in Washington and certainly not the president debates anything else than how fast the race should be going. I mean actually debates, not saying nice things in front of a camera.