Sorry, I disagree. It's time to start calling out these people and holding them responsible for their actions, which affect us all.
Voting for a demagogue needs to carry a heavy social cost, or nothing will change.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14277304 and marked it off-topic.
We've left the original comment that took a partisan swerve intact because it was substantive otherwise (plus the author acknowledged the error).
To me this means anyone who found either top US candidate as a viable option, so am I supposed to dismiss the majority of Americans merely because they voted? Personally this was an off-topic and non-relevant aside that served no purpose but to start flamewars. Politics is a mind-killer.
Not to mention hardly everyone who visits HN is even from the US and those outside of it (in western countries who have experienced stable/functional political systems) are very likely looking at the whole thing as a sidehow rather than who one voted for as some deep analogous reference to the topic at hand.
If you think this is so then don't talk politics. But if you're asking us to be Good Germans that's not going to happen.
HN is a great place to talk tech, startups and entrepreneurship. However I'm not really interested in HN's thoughts on policy, policy making, or governance. I'd rather discuss these things who study them, are in those fields, on a forum expressly for that purpose.
I can't stand startup and entrereneurship talk.
I'm on HN because its a place that attracts smart people that talk about a high diversity of intellectual topics with a common ground of tech experience. These days its often the high-tech savvy community from whom the experts in those other fields are likely to be found. (and partly why i'm here). And at the very least, I would argue you can't separate tech in any meaningful way from policy, policy making, society or governance.