You're 100% right, I was upset because this is a legitimately interesting topic for discussion, and when I was commenting, the thread was being flooded with low

You're 100% right, I was upset because this is a legitimately interesting topic for discussion, and when I was commenting, the thread was being flooded with low-grade "hurr durr socialism" comments (I watched the thread rapidly grow from 0 comments), feeding the trolls is not the answer... easy to forget, which is what users like "whistlecrackers" want.