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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Though not equally, by a long shot

[–]jet199Instigatrix 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yep, the left have gone with "We have the science on our side" as a way of recruiting for decades. In fact you could argue it goes right back to Marx with marxist theories being argued to be somehow scientific.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think political rhetoric is often conflated with facts, knowledge, philosophy, & reality, on both sides of the US political aisle; though without the rhetoric, there is an important difference between the 'left' and 'right'