Our Time Is Now: Power: on Corporations

Donald Trump: OpEd: replaced scientific fact with profit-driven opinion

Convincing Americans not to trust the government was the first step. For decades, Congressional Republicans have executed the second step by stripping crucial bureaucracies of funding. The third step has been replacing scientific fact with profit- driven opinion. [For example, with] climate change deniers, modern conservative ideology has rejected research as a necessary ingredient for decision making.

The weakening of our public administration infrastructure has reached its pinnacle in the Trump administration. Trump and his cabinet have consistently derided the very institutions they lead. Americans have become inured to the churn of cabinet officials and staff officials and staff departures. Trump's steady stream lies has half of the country turning a deaf ear and the other half ingesting false information. Trump's actions have built on the GOP's intentional destruction of institutions, and has left America weakened in a time of international crisis.

Source: Our Time Is Now, by Stacey Abrams, p.256-7 Jun 9, 2020

Republican Party: OpEd:GOP replaces scientific fact with profit-driven opinion

Convincing Americans not to trust the government was the first step. Grover Norquist famously explained the ultimate conservative mission, "to get government down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." For decades, Congressional Republicans have executed this second step by stripping crucial bureaucracies of funding, sometimes aided by cowed Democrats. Waves of privatization, deregulation, and sequestration had their desired effects: fewer hand on deck. The third step has been replacing scientific fact with profit-driven opinion. From the climate change deniers to the congressional prohibition of unpopular scientific studies, modern conservative ideology has rejected research as a necessary ingredient for decision making.

The weakening of our public administration infrastructure has reached its pinnacle in the Trump administration. Trump's actions have built on the GOP's intentional destruction of institutions, and has left America weakened in a time of international crisis.

Source: Our Time Is Now, by Stacey Abrams, p.256-7 Jun 9, 2020

The above quotations are from Our Time Is Now Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams. Click here for definitions & background information on Corporations. Click here for other issues (main summary page). Click here for more quotes by Stacey Abrams on Corporations.
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