One of the key reasons the bloodthirsty, radical terrorist organization known as the GOP (Gihad ol' Party) will do their damndest to bring American government to its knees is that the the extremist clerics of their berserk religion hold in contempt elementary principles of the Western Enlightenment -- principles such as a basic respect for science.
And indeed, the GihadOP's assault on Enlightment principles cannot be dismissed as mere ideological posturing. Once you examine their stated agenda, you can see that the Gihadist's fanatical enslavement to a twisted religious orthodoxy demands that they wreak untold devastation on the American Heartland.
And it gets worse! Not even simple math is spared the wrath of the Holy War.
(Someone who will blithely tell you unemployment will be down to 2 something percent in 15 years is someone who will cheerily inform you that 2+2=5 -- and nowadays that is also, not coincidentally, someone who will probably also spew lots of bullshit about why torture is sometimes just swell. Because of Freedom.)