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by bdhe 2533 days ago
It's a deeply disappointing realization that to a lot of people, basic human decency, integrity in disseminating truth, and a consistent view of facts has become a partisan issue because of the Republican party.
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Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar.

Also, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. Important though those issues are, we ban accounts that do that on HN, because it's not what this site is for and destroys the curiosity that it is for. If you would review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended, we'd be grateful.

Or the fact that what was once a cornerstone of American Conservatism has now disappeared entirely, the free market economy. "I can't compete in the marketplace of ideas, I need government intervention, subsidies, import tariffs to break up those big bad 'leftist' companies, I'm not smart/strong/good enough to do it myself."

Reagan is spinning in his grave.

They managed the amazing feat of being both anti-free market and anti-social-safety at the same time.

Perhaps a big-tent pro-democracy, pro-rule of law party will emerge as a counter weight somehow.

The amount of illiberal ideas coming out of many people scares the shit out of me. Banning anything is not liberal, it's authoritarian.