(July 16, 2017 at 7:18 pm)Astonished Wrote: Well not if history is full of opposing views being violently repressed, and if today the majority of power is in the hands of those promoting faith. Sense and reason never had a chance, but under favorable circumstances, I would take the bet that it would probably be close to half.
There seem right now to be two possibilities: 1) the Trump voters are the dying gasp of white stupidity in the US; 2) stupidity has become so outraged at the oppression of sense and science that the revolution has officially begun.
I'd like to think it's (1), but given the species' historical capacity for mob violence, I'm not so sure.