It is now their turn to guess and guess and be listened to. Some of the loudest, most proudly ignorant guessing in the world is going on in Washington today. Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by research and scholarship and investigative reporting. They think that the whole country is sick of it, and they could be right. They want to put us back on the snake-oil standard again.
Loaded pistols are good for people unless they're in prisons or lunatic asylums.
Millions spent on public health are inflationary. Billions spent on weapons will bring inflation down. Dictatorships to the right are much closer to American ideals than dictatorships to the left. The more hydrogen bomb warheads we have all set to go off at a moment's notice, the safer humanity is, the better the world our grandchildren will inherit. Industrial wastes and especially those which are radioactive hardly ever hurt anybody, so everybody should shut up about them.