&gt; <i>my father is a physician and nearly every physician I knew supported Reagan</i><p>Reminds me of a pretty interesting post by Yvain[0]. The relevant quote:<p>&quot;There are certain theories of dark matter where it barely interacts with the regular world at all, such that we could have a dark matter planet exactly co-incident with Earth and never know. Maybe dark matter people are walking all around us and through us, maybe my house is in the Times Square of a great dark matter city, maybe a few meters away from me a dark matter blogger is writing on his dark matter computer about how weird it would be if there was a light matter person he couldn’t see right next to him.<p>This is sort of how I feel about conservatives.<p>(...)<p>What I mean is – well, take creationists. According to Gallup polls, about 46% of Americans are creationists. Not just in the sense of believing God helped guide evolution. I mean they think evolution is a vile atheist lie and God created humans exactly as they exist right now. That’s half the country.<p>And I don’t have a single one of those people in my social circle. (...)<p>I live in a Republican congressional district in a state with a Republican governor. The conservatives are definitely out there. They drive on the same roads as I do, live in the same neighborhoods. But they might as well be made of dark matter. I never meet them.&quot;<p>--<p>&gt; <i>Here&#x27;s one thread. I can&#x27;t spend more time on this, so if you guys still don&#x27;t believe me, you win (for the moment). I&#x27;d rather you were right anyway.</i><p>Hah. An advertising-bashing thread I missed :&lt;. I post a lot of negative comments about advertising too, and the reactions are... mixed. I have an impression that HN is a bit split on the issue, some believing that it&#x27;s absolutely necessary and others (like me) who would say &quot;good riddance&quot; if all ad-supported web sites disappeared right now. But I don&#x27;t feel like there&#x27;s a HN consensus around ads.<p>[0] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;slatestarcodex.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;30&#x2F;i-can-tolerate-anything...</a>