{"id":4217,"date":"2011-09-02T21:28:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T03:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/within-the-g-o-p-willful-ignorance-has-become-a-litmus-test-for-candidates\/"},"modified":"2011-09-02T21:28:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T03:28:28","slug":"within-the-g-o-p-willful-ignorance-has-become-a-litmus-test-for-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/within-the-g-o-p-willful-ignorance-has-become-a-litmus-test-for-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"“Within the G.O.P., willful ignorance has become a litmus test for candidates.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans Against Science – NYTimes.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

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By PAUL KRUGMAN<\/a>
Published: August 28, 2011 <\/p>\n

According to Public Policy Polling, only 21 percent of Republican voters in Iowa believe in global warming (and only 35 percent believe in evolution)<\/font>. Within the G.O.P., willful ignorance has become a litmus test for candidates, one that Mr. Romney is determined to pass at all costs. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s now highly likely that the presidential candidate of one of our two major political parties will either be a man who believes what he wants to believe, even in the teeth of scientific evidence, or a man who pretends to believe whatever he thinks the party\u2019s base wants him to believe. <\/p>\n

And the deepening anti-intellectualism of the political right<\/font>, both within and beyond the G.O.P., extends far beyond the issue of climate change. \u2026<\/p>\n

Now, we don\u2019t know who will win next year\u2019s presidential election. But the odds are that one of these years the world\u2019s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively anti-science, indeed anti-knowledge<\/font>. And, in a time of severe challenges \u2014 environmental, economic, and more \u2014 that\u2019s a terrifying prospect. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Republicans Against Science – NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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