Yeah, and the Californian left are known for their elitist diatribes... which seems to have rubbed off on you a bit.safe said:The general public have a very shallow understanding of nuclear physics and are easily frightened by it. What most people don't know is that you get three times as much radiation as normal by just being at high altitude. Pilots and flight attendants get cancers at rates way above the national average and they know it's because of the excess radiation exposure. Radiation is a normal part of the universe, and often the places that demonstrate a higher risk are not what people expect. (like flying at high altitude)
The "common man" fears the wrong things most of the time and are easily manipulated by public opinion. The greatest irony of America is that we are "free", but often so willing to accept wild gossip to form opinion that our "freedom" can seem in question.
Can we (as Americans) really be free when we accept media manipulators so easily?
I've got to say that when it comes to emotional manipulation the left is clearly more eager to use that as their primary weapon. The left tends not to "think" but instead they "feel" and feelings are what get manipulated.
That's just my observation... (and I grew up in California and used to live and work in San Francisco, so I've been very intimate with the culture)
Look, people are skeptical about nuclear power because we are in the middle of cancer epidemic right now. Not to mention the fact that we've all seen the photos of Nagasaki & Hiroshima in August of 1945.