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Comment by mattnewton | Hacker News Reader

How is that hiding from American politics?

Easy: don't watch the news.

When they won't let me come in the US at the border after visiting a different country, not watching the new will be very helpful indeed

GP said relocate to middle America.

Even if you relocate to Colorado, Kansas, whatever, one occasionally needs to travel to other countries, no?

Most Americans don't have a passport and have never left the country.

And this applies to American Silicon Valley programmers, too?

Sure. Many of us don't have any need to leave America at all.

But some do. So the reply to the GGG...P stands.

By that same token, though, any American who travels abroad can't truly isolate themselves anywhere if they hope to return without the aforementioned fears of being barred from reentry.

Yeah, and you don't need to even leave your city, or do anything besides go home, go to work, and go to the grocery store and a few other places like the doctor.

Doesn't sound like much of a life to me. What's the point of making 6 figures in a hard profession if you're going to live like a miser?

That isn't working for me. Neighbors down the street afraid of ICE raids after the last one hit our city, all anyone wants to talk about is WWIII brewing in Syria.

Foolish people think politics is something that happens on television or to other people. That can change very quickly and politics begins to show up at the doors and windows.

You're still subject to the laws that get passed.

How 'bout that ISP spying, and those latest pushes against net neutrality. (But okay, at least you have cheap - for the US - rent) I'd love to get locked in to that as a small business.

> Easy: don't watch the news.

"The news" is not just followed as an emotional stimulant; your life in relation to "the news" does not begin and end with the television or computer screen. It's a harbinger of law and policy to come.

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