There are plenty of websites intended for political discussions. HN, rather explicitly, is not one of them.

I could write about how political discussions reduce the quality (and go against the purpose) of this site, but thankfully Dang has already covered that, so I'll just link to him instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46378818

> That’s an incredibly gross personality trait.

On a final note, I'll add that responses like these are a great example of the general degradation of discussion norms that occurs in these types of threads.