58…oh, I forget, in the world of Pajamas Media, America is literally the only country that exists in the world. Why, everyone else are merely guests allowed to live thanks to a permission slip from Uncle Sam.
The Industrial Revolution started in England in the early 19th Century, and it is patently absurd to have invoked it as an argument AGAINST government funding of scientific research in the 21st Century. Of course, a cursory study of the American railroad age paints a pretty slimy picture of the railroad barons. Hell, the late 19th Century American West wasn’t a utopia of rugged individualism, it was a barbaric and lawless hellhole where the person with the most cash won. The fact that you nimrod Randian GOPers are achingly nostalgic for that time speaks volumes about what’s wrong with your current party’s philosophy.
