After the hell years of Bush II I thought that a government that supported science would be by definition a better one. Instead we got a government under Obama that _said_ it supported science and ignored anything it didn't like. It took me years to realize that, no, there wasn't a long term master plan. His science posturing was a veneer of legitimacy on the same old policies, just as terrible but in different ways. Fracking being the one that finally woke me up.

After the nightmare of those two administrations we finally got to a science policy that has bipartisan support: pick whatever owns the other side the most and pretend it's science. Doesn't matter what it is.