"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
— -- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780, quoted from Adrienne Koch, ed., The American Enlightenment: The Shaping of the American Experiment and a Free Society, New York: George Braziller, 1965, p. 93.
I suspect we would both like
I suspect we would both like voters to be able to understand the line between proven science and yet-to-be proven theory and how it applies to these issues, and in doing so learn to think critically enough to recognize self-serving "pejorative" language typically used by politicians. Hopefully regular working voting citizens will begin to feel the need to research via the local library or Yahoo search and seek out the facts and recognize political manipulation and using "selected" science from basic sound balanced science.
As far as the various posts of mine and yours, with subsequent comments - I think the readers of this publication are smart enough to consider the content and form their own conclusions.
I also think the folks who have enough of an open mind to think for themselves, can recognize the fact that it isn't limited to any one political party, rather is seems to run rampant in our government.