Well, what do you expect? At the moment, we're a country of conservatives in the midst of a depression. Everyone's interested in markets and commerce, while gre

Well, what do you expect? At the moment, we're a country of conservatives in the midst of a depression. Everyone's interested in markets and commerce, while great swaths of our population regard climate scientists "skeptically", as though they are purposefully deceiving us to some end; regard evolutionary scientists as liars; regard science and scientists in general as untrustworthy because they're too far removed from "blue collar Joe". The decisions of our government are the result of our culture, not the other way 'round. I might've hated the decisions to wage war in the Middle East on a number of grounds, but I had to admit that those decisions had massive popular support. This is just a continuation of that same culture in action, and any historian could tell you what's likely coming next.