[tylerritchie]

The best part about your observation (this is less than 1% of the Democrats in the House) are the (currently top, highly-piled-on) comments with people clutching their pearls and wondering how The Democrats--as a collective--strayed so far into Orwellian territory.

It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine whether those commenters are being genuine, or are just grossly incapable of critical thinking.

[tptacek]

It's too late to do anything about it now, but it's for this reason that we have a general norm against these kinds of stories on HN --- this falls into the same bucket as "proposed bill" (this is far less than a proposed bill), which are virtually always off-topic on HN, as you can confirm with a quick search of 'dang comments.

The normal good thing to do with stuff like this is to flag it before it sprawls into a 500 comment thread.