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US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell
First time accepted submitter badford writes "Representative Paul Broun (Georgia Republican) said that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are 'lies straight from the pit of hell' meant to convince people that they do not need a savior. It would not be quite as shocking if Broun did not sit on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. What impact could this have on policy? What impact could this have on STEM education not just in Georgia but all over the U.S.?"
Do you know what the definition of a free country is?
It is *not*: Oh if I vote and all my friends vote and only the people who we want to get into government wield power then I'll have what I want because the people with guns running things are on our "side".
No: It is this: The power of government is constrained so that *even if I don't vote or even if my candidates of choice aren't in power 100% of the time it doesn't matter because their power is limited*.
When we here the usual trope from some 1%er celebrity about how he'll leave the country if Republican politician X is not publicly lynched, it just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how government should be structured.
To put it another way: Any person who has absolutely no probem granting Obama insane amounts of power because they somehow feel he'll only screw-over their enemies but is terrified that Romney might have the same amount of power is doing it wrong. Neither one should have that amount of power to begin with whether you agree with him or not.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.