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This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.
There are two sides to the brain drain. First are the researchers into things the government doesn't like, who will leave if they have the means to.
But the second is that with all of our hostility to foreign nationals right now, even the ones who come from countries the government likes will think twice about applying for positions here.
The net result is that the brightest minds will go elsewhere.
It's like a federal version of the same thing red states were doing. I left a rust belt state over a decade ago because it was clear the state was going down the tubes.
They're making America Mississippi again (MAMA).
And thats exactly the plan. An idiocracy thats easy to control and exploit.
There are also all those, in both humanities and sciences, whose projects or departments are denied funding for ideological reasons.
Which is fine with them, they know that smart people will call them out on their bullshit. That's why one of the first thing an authoriatarian government does is go after the intellectuals. That's why they're disappearing avtivist college students.
The good news for our side is that they are giving their opposition the gift of competence. The most experienced, competent leaders are being replaced with stupid, ignorant, totally inexperienced loyalists. Left behind are millions of angry Federal employees, who hate what MAGA is doing to all their years of hard work, and who despise their new bosses. They are ripe for recruiting as moles, leakers, saboteurs, assassins, etc. And those experienced leaders will be the ones to lead us through the inevitable revolt, and form the basis of the new Democractic government.
Ultimately, MAGA will be brought down by their own virtuosic incompetence.
You can almost feel the average IQ of the nation drop every time one of these people leave