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natural selection doesn't fare well with leftis minds.

Well there was Lysenkoism in Soviet Russia, but generally I don't think there's much of a correlation between socialism and a belief in or skepticism of evolution. Although Karl Marx himself was a big believer in Darwin's theory and wrote about it in glowing terms

Funnily enough in modern America conservatism is very heavily correlated with creationism and Intelligent Design, through the Republican alliance with fundamental Christians and the influence of the Discovery Institute. Frankly as a British conservative who grew up in the Reagan/Thatcher days I look at modern US Republicanism with a mix of bemusement and horror, but that's beside the point.

As an American your age (+- epsilon) I think the same as you.

> Frankly as a British conservative who grew up in the Reagan/Thatcher days I look at modern US Republicanism with a mix of bemusement and horror, but that's beside the point.

It may be beside the point, but it’s something shared by a lot of us “on the inside” as well.

I grew up surrounded by American conservatives and both US political parties seem like caricatures at this point.

I want to agree with your implication that US conservatism was better in the past, but then I remember that in 1988, under Reagan, after the United States shot down a passenger jet killing all 290 people on board, the United States never apologized or accepted wrongdoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

You sounded like the guys you are mocking? I.e. baseless claim without proofs?

nature doesn't need to be proven. it just is and it does not care about your feelings.

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