In the new world of “alternative” facts, it is worth remembering some of the undeniable facts of which conservatives and Republicans so often disapprove:
- The government of the United States is divided into three equal powers; the judiciary is NOT just a rubber stamp for Congress or the President.
- Running a large country and economy is complicated, and doing it well requires real knowledge and experience.
- Republicans don’t actually know anything more than anybody else does about business or public finance.
- Among wealthier and more developed economies, socialized medicine is normal; the U.S. is a rare exception.
- Budget deficits matter.
- Cutting taxes does NOT raise revenue.
- It is the nature of unregulated Capitalism to produce economic instability in the form of alternating cycles of boom and bust.
- Corporations cannot always be trusted to be good citizens.
- Most U.S. manufacturing jobs did not go “offshore;” they were eliminated globally by automation.
- Jobs that pay well generally require employees with higher levels of education.
- Charter schools and vouchers don’t automatically provide children with a better education.
- The vast majority of undocumented immigrants come here to work.
- U.S. laws and government are NOT based on the Bible; nothing even vaguely resembling a constitutional republic, universal suffrage, trial by jury, or a Bill of Rights can be found there.
- The United States was consciously designed to be a secular state.
- Neither scientific facts nor the scientific method change with political party.
- Global warming is real and is caused to a large degree by human activity.
- The most effective means for reducing abortion is to make sure everyone has affordable access to birth control and has medically accurate sexual education before puberty.
- No, the nuclear family is not a universal aspect of all cultures in all times.
- It is natural and normal for human populations to contain many variations within the categories of sex, gender, and sexuality.
- Much of what you think you know about gender, race and ethnicity is an arbitrary fantasy invented by the culture in which you grew up.
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