re: #12 HappyWarrior

True point that it gets more complicated when we get more local and rural, however, if the right wants to stop the perception that it’s anti-science, wouldn’t it help to nominate people who aren’t hostile to science for office? I mean we have numerous R legislators on the record of likening Darwin’s theories to anything from Nazism to Marxism and everything in between. You’re right that the Dems need to fight for science rather than just using it as a fighting point against R candidates but the R’s are doing us no favors.

In other words, the Democrats are more or less compromised, and the Republicans are, virtually without exception, insane/evil.

We really can’t hope to get back to a sensible two party system until the GOP is reformed to (or replaced by) a party that at least deals with reality.

No amount of local or candidate-specific backsliding by Democrats on science (or any other important issue) is as damaging as the GOP party orthodoxy of being wrong about everything.