What an useless and asshole-ish response. I did vote and that ship sailed Nov. 8th. I'm obviously looking for ways to fight this now.
Edit to add: And being able to not react reflexively to every perceived slight is itself a good suggestion as it's going to make you more effective in dealing with a lot of the polarization that's out there.
Voting is the bare minimum we can do and I don't really need to post a HN thread to figure that out.