The difference is that the American right is ideologically homogeneous and the American left is a mess of different ideologies that agree on a few things and so elect candidates from the Democratic party.<p>And furthermore, you&#x27;re implicitly and explicitly misrepresenting the arguments against all of those things which you claim leftists hawk as evil. Nuclear power is powerful, sure, I don&#x27;t think anyone denies that. But it leaves us with piles of toxic waste and very few ways to rid ourselves of it, so it&#x27;s not as if it&#x27;s a done deal. Especially not when sources like solar and wind have many of the same benefits without the toxic aftereffects.<p>As for GMO foods, I&#x27;m an aspiring synthetic biologist myself and I can say that there&#x27;s nothing inherently dangerous with the scientific side of it, nor does there seem to be anything explicitly awful going on with commercial GMOs right now. The problems I have with GMOs are more what I see as potential problems, specifically that the companies creating them have less than sterling reputations for concern of public safety. I&#x27;m also generally wary of deregulation of industry, because historically it has not ended well. I think people shouldn&#x27;t trust large companies implicitly, especially when these large companies are saying &quot;please trust us&quot;.<p>I should highlight that none of these constitute point blank denial of science in the way the denying global warming does.<p>As for complaints with the potential effectiveness of missile defense, you&#x27;ll have to be a bit more specific.