Being In Opposition, and In the Right

THE GLOBAL MARCH for science, on April 22, was a verifiable, empirical success, as is science, as hundreds of thousands of well informed individuals gathered together around the world, in big cities, to assert that science should be exalted, supported, and practiced, not ignored. The so called "populist" movement sweeping cancerously through Europe and North America would have us believe otherwise, as millions of scientifically illiterate climate change deniers keep voting for candidates who deem themselves qualified to tell us which science to accept, and which to reject, as if they had the faintest idea of what they were speaking. The pattern is; whatever science appears to be an impediment to the accumulation of personal wealth and neo-liberal anti government economic theory is deemed by the conservative community invalid; any science which seems to support the conservative pro wealth environmental ignorance agenda, of which there is vanishingly little, is embraced. So goes all conservative thought. This bizarre Trumpian populism, whatever it is, is doomed to extinction, because if it prevails, we are all doomed to extinction. One week after the march for science, on April 29, climate change awareness marches were held, in a one two punch intended to further push back against the rising tide of right wing populist ignorance. The world advances only because of those who oppose it. (Goethe) The science and climate change marchers oppose it. So did the suffragetttes, so did the anti Viet Nam protesters, so did the Bonus Army marches in the summer of 1932, and so did the racial equality fighters, led by the now iconic martin Luther King. Every last one of these protest movements was correct. Remember that in all instances, the conservatives of the day stood in stark opposition to the progress being advocated, and, then as now, the conservatives were wrong, dead wrong. History hath shewn that all of the demonstrators were on the "right side" of history, and those who opposed them, like today's conservatives, were not. We will see soon, but not soon enough, that those who oppose change and progress are wrong, and will be extinct, but not soon enough.