I'm delighted that this idiot is a democrat. Let's give that party some of the joy.
From Here
LaRouche feels that there are only two types of ways of viewing human beings. Either one holds the (Renaissance) belief that one is a divinely created soul, with the divine gift of reason, or the (Enlightenment) belief that one is only a beast who must be controlled and manipulated by the oligarchs.
There is no compromise possible. The oligarchs promote the belief that creativity is the product of sexual sublimation or perversion or getting in touch with the Dionysian/irrational unconscious through their puppets like Freud and Jung, says LaRouche, so that people will not learn from Schiller and others that creativity comes from divine reason and proportion.
Science should be guided by Platonic ideals, feels LaRouche, but it has become the tool of Aristotelian sophistry which tries to convince us (through evolution, etc.) that man is really nothing special.
The oligarchs understand the psychology of the mob, and Pavlovs' dogs, and know the fascistic means to get us to do what they want.
Hitler was just an experiment for the Anglo-American cabal...
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The D*m*cr*t party is a surprisingly big tent.
Let's hope the Dem doesn't attract some Reps to the party. Political competition can bring out some fence sitters.
Let me first state that my understanding of what is entailed by your Democratic Party is incomplete, but from that perspective (which assumes your Democrats are generally analogous to our Labour Party), it is the Democrats whom I would expect to more strongly favour the ID 'teach the controversy' line, as a form of ideological interference with science (science as a high order form of rational empiricism, which provides the ultimate refuations of leftist irrational ideology). Here (Britain) it is the Labour Party which ceaselessly toils to push relativism into the educational curricula, most apparently in disciplines such as History but more recently into other areas. ID is clearly a distinctly minority view, which appears to have presented nothing with which scientists can engage; the notion of demanding equal time, as it were, for it at introductory level in your secondary schools seems to me precisely the same political agenda as that pursued by those who have expunged British imperial history (warts and all) from our school curricula in favour of 'culture studies.'
It may be of interest to note that over here, the drive for ID, though small, chiefly originates from parts of the Muslim population, and our current socialist government is seeking to facilitate an expansion of Islamic schools which can teach Darwin-free biology.
You clearly do have a culture war roaring away over there. We have a smaller one over here; the players are slightly different, but the battle lines are looking similar.