Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 29, 2012, 15:25:
I didn't read all the posts in this topic, I got tired after the first 20 or so. Anyway, I just wanted to comment that if you want to try to understand politics in the US you first need to realize this:
In a June 2012 Gallup poll in the US, 46% of the respondents said they thought the Earth was only 10,000 years old.
When you start there... well, there isn't much to say.
I shudder to think of the percentage of GOP congressmen that would answer that way too. It definitely does explain why they seem to be living in an entirely different reality than the rest of us.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell (I think...)