I truly appreciate your viewpoint, but we living is some very strange times. We need a place to have a rational discussion about them. There are very few places

I truly appreciate your viewpoint, but we living is some very strange times. We need a place to have a rational discussion about them. There are very few places on the Internet where this can occur that aren't completely polarized already. Since this current political situation impacts so many Hacker News topics, including science, research funding, employment, job postings, economy, startup culture, in my view it is worthy of a few posts. I know there are many libertarians out there, and many small-c conservatives, that are not comfortable with what our current government is doing. I am one of those. I welcome well-reasoned arguments one way or the other, using facts. That objective reality is something worth preserving. And I don't like the deafening silence I am hearing from 'mainstream' news sources about what's going on. I've read quite a lot of dystopian science fiction, and I am getting the feels right now. When I grew up I expected we'd be living in space by now, I wan't expecting to live in Oceania.