The left has plenty of science deniers too - just not on those topics though their science denying on the viability of renewables and views on nuclear power are at least tangentially related to climate change. They deny fetal viability when it comes to late term abortion. Their anti-GMO stances are in direct conflict with science as are the anti-vaxxer views (though they also exist in some on the right). Let's not even get started on some economic science data. Face it; partisanship trumps science and science expertise on both sides but only one side has the gall to accuse the other of it while not recognizing it's own shortcomings.
Again, this “they’re both the same” argument is stupid at the best of times, but it just isn’t accurate in this instance.
It’s why Fox crushed CNN and MSNBC in the ratings prior to Trump, when they all had basically the same type of content. Liberals just don’t go for that stuff in the same numbers.
I think it’s a little more proportionate now because the liberal channels have picked up on the low hanging fruit of “trump sucks,” but they’re not competing with Fox by bringing anti-abortion activists in and asking them to explain how a single premature baby’s death doesn’t refute their fetal viability theory then mocking them and shutting off the feed.
Also, none of the things you’re citing appear to be an accurate reflection of mainstream liberal views, except maybe the economic stuff. I find it hard to believe that mainstream democrats are saying we should live entirely off of renewable energy when I’ve never heard that before.
Meanwhile, climate change skepticism is a consistent feature during Fox’s prime-time programming. Why? Because their viewers will tune in in large numbers to watch Tucker own some environmentalist. Because many of them don’t believe in climate change. Because many of them have seen it lampooned so many times in that same manner.
It’s not even close to being the same, and continuIng to circle the wagons to defend those who engage in willful stupidity is part of the problem.
(It seems like nobody wants to be associated with the anti-vaxxers. Maybe that’s a non-partisan brand of stupid. All the ones I know post QAnon stuff, so I assumed it was a product of the right.)
