Chris L Peterson:
Our country has never gone through such a period of focused
anti-intellectualism, especially as directed towards science.

Bert:
Anti-intellectualism?

Yes. Those who don't want to know anything they can't find in a
3,000-year-old book are bound to fear intellectuals and reject
intellectualism. Their last presidential candidate ranked 894th of 899
graduates in his class at the USNA and could not possibly have been
admitted on merit--daddy was an admiral. No need to discuss his running
mate.

You want The State to support your pet projects with money taken by
force from the citizens and you have the nerve to talk about
anti-intellectualism?

There is no "State." I want the People to pool their financial
resources for the betterment of the human condition and the achievement
of noble aims. I'm talking about the People who pooled their resources
and wiped out smallpox, yellow fever, and polio; who pooled their tax
dollars to fund the WWII GI Bill that is the direct and verifiable
cause of this country's unprecedented in world history economic success
pre-Reagan. The people who pooled their resources and built the
Interstate Highway System and who funded the space program. I like it
when my money is pooled with that of my fellow citizens to relieve the
suffering of victims of disasters, misfortune, and predatory
capitalists whose greed knows no bounds.

Your nonsensical talk of the "State" forcibly taking money from its
citizens marks you as a tee-pee fool and a liar.

Davoud

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I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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