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Re: Climate Change Denial and the Refusal to Accept Evolution
The Conservatives fear global warming because it means they loose money. The cure for global warming will hurt those people who are currently making money in areas that laws to help change GW would hurt. They also fear that the changes to stop or reverse GW will change the balance or power in the form of Money going to someone other then them. They know they didn't see the change coming in time to capitalize on it and they are too greedy to allow anyone else to make money.
Resistance to Evolution is mostly religious in nature, the religious fear that admitting the truth of evolution will hurt their power base. They want to have a strangle hold on the truth. And truth that is outside the bonds of their religion is a challenge.
The Conservatives, especially the neo-cons, have been mixing religion politics and capitalism so long they can no longer separate these things. It's helps both sides to oppose both ideas, by opposing evolution the neo-cons/republicans gain the support of the religious right, by opposing GW the religious right gains the support of the neo-cons.
The religious right slavishly follows the Conservatives because they think the Conservatives share their values. They refuse to see the only thing the neo-cons and the religious right really share is a need for power and a willingness to lie, cheat, spread fear, and anything else it takes to make sure their constituents follow them without question.
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Michael
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