People have viewpoints. They have enough of them that explaining them in detail every time they come up would be tedious.

You and I both could write up plausible explanations of what he might mean by that, as both those topics are already discussed to death here. There's no particular reason to think he's being dogmatic, just pithy.

I'll also note that it would be easy to make the same accusation about your own posts. E.g.: "The contemporary democratic nation state is a facade over a distributed and decentralized oligarchy." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837598

But presumably you see yourself as holding that position for non-dogmatic reasons, so I'd encourage you to do the same for others.