Comment by nodesocket

I find the recent (last four years especially) disdain and disapproval for pure capitalism, free-market, and smaller government here on HN somewhat baffling. I have been active on HN since early 2011 and there was much more active discussion and approval of capitalism, business, and libertarian ideology before. I suspect Trump has pushed people who were central or fiscally conservative to the far left, but frankly the consensus on HN seems to support the more radical socialist and anti-capitalist ideas now a days. Not even to mention the utter evaporation of free speech (in its pure form) and complete over politically correctness in technology (see master branch and master / slave changes).