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From the I've-heard-enough-and-won't-take-it-anymore department, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39024648
The BBC reports that former Congressman Rush Holt, now part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is the spokesman for a movement "standing up for science".
His remarks reflect growing concern among researchers that science is disregarded by President Trump.
Scientists across the US plan to march in DC on 22 April.
[...] "To see young scientists, older scientists, the general public speaking up for the idea of science. We are going to work with our members and affiliated organisations to see that this march for science is a success."
Mr Holt made his comments at the AAAS annual meting in Boston as President Trump appointed a fierce critic of the Environmental Protection Agency as its head. Scott Pruitt has spent years fighting the role and reach of the EPA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @12:44AM
To the extreme left is an individual devoid of rule, an anarchist
First, Anarchy is not "without rules"; it's "without RULERS".
Anarchy is moving the making of rules as close as possible to those most affected by those rules.
Anarchy is NOT synonymous with "chaos"--as so many have been led to believe.
Next, your rotation of the political palate by 90 degrees from the standard notation [politicalcompass.org] isn't doing anyone any favors in understanding things.
The USA was founded left of center
In your twisted model, that would be "without rule".
That's nonsense.
USA was set up with a wealthy ruling class writing the rulebook (the founding documents).
You don't have to look very hard in those to see the celebration of Plantation Capitalism where a tiny few benefit and everyone else is subordinate; in some cases, people are even property of the landed gentry.
both the dems and the reps have both gone over the [here, had you used standard nomenclature, you would have said the horizontal center line].
I don't think that the majority of either of those parties was EVER on the other side of that line.
...well, maybe The Party of Lincoln when they got the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed.
...though there are exception in those that give me pause e.g. no slave labor except in prisons--which Jim Crow took advantage of bigtime.
Both seek more rule thanks to the corruption of capitalism which itself is a far right concept (rule through money and economics)
No. According to your twisted model that would make Capitalism a **governmental** form instead of an economic form.
While those who embrace Capitalism often are -also- Authoritarian, your attempt to turn the political palate into a 1-dimension thing is a horrible, confusing notion.
Lamestream Media pulls this crap continually and some folks buy into their bogus 1-dimensional Left/Right terminology.
It appears that you are repeating their swill.
I suggest that you view Corporate Media with a jaundiced eye.
They are all too often trying to confuse you.
In this case, it appears that they have succeeded.
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