They dont need a mandate as long as they control White House and Congress . . . The only thing Dems and Independents can do is get off their asses and vote in the midterms to a majority again . <| sep |> my sister works in special education . she has a student that is extremely gifted in math , but still receieves special education in reading and writing and is put in classes with much lower functioning students . Apparently they use the word SPED casually , which was not allowed and got you detention when i was young . <| sep |> Yeah , that scene really bothered me . <| sep |> It ' s perfectly reasonable to accept appeals to authority if there ' s no reason to question the credibility of the authority . It ' s similar to someone taking your uncle ' s word for it , when he argues about hit field of speciality within the legal system . Except there are tens of thousands of your uncle all saying nearly the exact same thing , and the people arguing against it are trained carpenters and biologists with zero legal training . Hey uncle , I appreciate your attempt at advice regarding your field of speciality , but my football coach told me it ' s bullshit , and his nephew ' s teacher ' s daughter went through it 6 years ago . Without allowing for appeals to credible authority , we ' re basically asking everyone to become experts on everything . Which simply isn ' t possible . So unless your uncle has some ironclad proof that all scientists are either useful fools or on the payroll of big climate change , it ' s fine . EDIT Note as uiunouonnis points to , that if possible it ' s likely better to bring forward some actual arguments to be discussed when possible , rather than saying scientists said so .