Georgia's 10th Congressional District representative, Paul Braun, made headlines a couple of weeks ago with his declaration that evolution and the Big Bang Theory "are lies straight from the pits of hell."
Running with no Democratic opponent in the district that includes Athens, Braun has had free rein to preach his fundamentalist doctrines -- inexplicable to me in a district that includes the University of Georgia. I know it's not exactly a hot bed of liberalism, but isn't there someone from the academic community who might have run?
It's too late to do anything now but protest -- and try to send a message with your vote. So UGA plant biologist and others started a "Charles Darwin for Congress" protest, with a FaceBook page to encourage people to write in Charles Darwin on their ballots.
This weekend, they had someone dressed up as Charles Darwin, standing at the main entrance to the campus, waving a sign that read, "Vote for me. Don't let Paul Braun make a monkey out of you."
The outrage of such ignorance in one of the 13 representatives Georgia sends to the U. S. House of Representatives is magnified by the fact that Braun, along with fellow-ideologue Todd Akin, is a member of its Science and Technology Committee. And he is a medical doctor, a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia.
Why are we surprised that the American people's approval rating for Congress is 10%? This is what the Pew Research Center found. It also found the approval rating for Socialism to be 31% -- three times as high as for our current Congress. How about that !!!
So why do we have only one declared Socialist in the whole of Congress?
Ralph
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