4 Ways the Insane GOP Primary Has Made America's Discourse Dumber Than Ever @alternet
"Over a dozen major candidates are jockeying for attention from primary voters, which means you’re going to see stranger and stranger pandering to right-wing elements that prefer their fantasy world to empirical reality.
Unsurprisingly, science itself is a major target, with various candidates launching flatly false statements contradicting facts established long ago by scientific research. It’s an all-out rhetorical war on science itself."
