If the current regime was in anyway interested in research, they would no doubt do much worse.

They don’t seem to want to gain any kind of knowledge though…

Which is why they lable anyone they arrest as a criminal, doesn’t have to be true. You heard Trump, having a trial for each one would take too long. So just slap a label on them and say you’re though on crime.

No, the private funding of politicians, which nowhere in the world happens as thoroughly or blatantly as in the US, is another issue to solve. It’s companies pushing for privatization of services that they sabotage first to show that the government doesn’t do well with them. It’s like the postal service headed by that Trump appointee that was a big cheese in a transport firma. I forgot his name.

You think the state of NASA isn’t caused by privately funded politicians?