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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 6012326" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;It’s fine to have two political parties battle it out over different values and ideas, but both sides should be roughly equally informed by expert advice. Our state and federal governments should be staffed by people who are exceptionally good at figuring out big, complex problems. We need this for our national defense, obviously, but also for almost everything else. We don’t want to live through global pandemics overseen by bureaucrats who can’t understand the science. We can’t mitigate the effects of global climate change if we don’t have people who understand how it works.Of late, the problem has been the leaders of the Republican Party simply don’t listen to these experts. Instead, they tell the American people that they shouldn’t be trusted. But the next step, which is now coming, is to start removing these experts’ influence entirely. Party hacks will oversee them and they’ll be fired. Their budgets will be slashed. Their findings will go unpublished.And this will mean that people who are hardly better prepared than apes will be in charge of public health, of environmental science and protection, of our food supply and developing our weapons systems. They won’t ask questions because they won’t understand the answers, don’t like the answers, and are part of a movement invested in sidelining these kinds of answers.&quot;Martin Longman</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 6012326, member: 54375"] "It’s fine to have two political parties battle it out over different values and ideas, but both sides should be roughly equally informed by expert advice. Our state and federal governments should be staffed by people who are exceptionally good at figuring out big, complex problems. We need this for our national defense, obviously, but also for almost everything else. We don’t want to live through global pandemics overseen by bureaucrats who can’t understand the science. We can’t mitigate the effects of global climate change if we don’t have people who understand how it works. Of late, the problem has been the leaders of the Republican Party simply don’t listen to these experts. Instead, they tell the American people that they shouldn’t be trusted. But the next step, which is now coming, is to start removing these experts’ influence entirely. Party hacks will oversee them and they’ll be fired. Their budgets will be slashed. Their findings will go unpublished. And this will mean that people who are hardly better prepared than apes will be in charge of public health, of environmental science and protection, of our food supply and developing our weapons systems. They won’t ask questions because they won’t understand the answers, don’t like the answers, and are part of a movement invested in sidelining these kinds of answers." Martin Longman [/QUOTE]

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