Quote Originally Posted by LAGC View Post
I think you kind of hit on the biggest problem facing the conservative movement right now, besides growing diversity in the American populace and the declining prominence of the older-aged white heterosexual male. More and more conservatives are finding themselves on the wrong side of the fence when it comes to respect for science and its institutions. I'm not talking about just climate change, but more and more contempt for science altogether, everything from the basic FACT of evolution by natural selection to things like stem-cell research and various other fields.

For one reason or another, conservatives have pitted themselves against science and its secular ways, which alienates many independent/swing voters who appreciate what all science has to offer. Conservatives increasingly are being represented by the least educated, least informed, least willing to learn and consider new ideas, and more and more open disrespect of intellectuals.

That's not a recipe for long-term political success, unless you want America to become an Idiocracy.
We did not have a problem with our science and math standing in the world until liberals taught us that competition was wrong, that everyone could be a winner. Once it became wrong to point out to someone that they were failing we started to lose our place. This is not about anyone, conservative or liberal asking hard questions about what science believes, this is about holding people to a standard. Which goes back to the original post about politicians gaining power by making people have to be held to standard, by bailing them out of decisions that they made.