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Originally Posted by Platapus
It all depends on how much Trump's businesses are involved in the space program.
If he has holdings, I am sure it will be a "national priority". If not....
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Good point. As far as I have seen, his holdings are very much in real estate and little else; however, some of the Trump cronies may have holdings that could be affected by a trimmed down NASA; then, again, if Trump does as other GOP POTUS have done in the past in order to boost economics figures and pursues increased Defense program spending, which is far more lucrative than NASA spending, and Trump or his cronies have holdings in Defense or Defense-related technologies, NASA may lose out...
The other issue is the animus with which the religious GOP Far Right holds against science in general: it's hard to sell blind faith when science inconveniently keeps finding facts. The odd thing about science, and intellectual pursuits, in general, is how whenever an extreme political or religious regime takes over a society, one of the first measures they take is the suppression, if not actual elimination, of the more open educated or scientific segments of a society; the Nazis did so in Germany and the Bolsheviks did so in the Soviet Union. Any system or regime that so fears those capable of possibly disputing or disproving the tenets of the system or regime, rests on a very slim foundation. This is why the Founding Fathers, all of whom could be deemed intellectuals, saw fit to make freedom of speech and the press as the No. 1 priority when writing the Constitution...
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