This is not entirely new, but more and more, it seems that the USA is drifting into an attitude of anti-science.   Some history of scientific trends from Google AI. Ancient Greece laid the groundwork for modern science. More than two millennia later came the Scientific Revolution, from Galileo on. The Romanticism movement from the late 1700s was concerned about separating science from humanity. In the 1800s came the Industrial Revolution, when Luddites protested automation and technology. In the 1900s, some totalitarian states, like the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, suppressed science and technology to serve political needs?  Sound familiar today? Today, anti-science attitudes are fueled by political, religious and corporate interest, on topics such as global warming, vaccine efficiency and evolution. Thus, ... Why Does MAGA Hate Science? Against all the evidence of horrific, devastating weather around us, climate change remains “a hoax.” An anti-vaxxer–caused outbreak o...

The USA has worked well since 1776 because the framers of the Constitution were wise enough to establish a government with a separation of powers: legislative branch makes laws, judicial branch interprets laws and executive branch enforces laws.  But the Constitution can be upheld only if these three are independent from each other.  For the first time ever in our history, we have a president who does all three whenever he wants, has one branch ( the U.S. Congress ) afraid to defy him, and the third ( Supreme Court ) which has already ruled that a sitting president can do anything and be free from prosecution.  Democrats and the public are useless in any defense, so President Donald Trump now rules like a dictator. There is one delay in the system.  A judiciary which has checked Trump.  But only temporarily, for anything Trump does not like gets eventually appealed to the Supreme Court.  The next few months will determine if the USA is in a constitutional c...