I'm very centrist so I respect and support aspects of both sides. I don't think the extreme left realizes it but they're just as fanatical as the right. I've

I'm very centrist so I respect and support aspects of both sides. I don't think the extreme left realizes it but they're just as fanatical as the right. I've had your same experiences on hacker news at times. It's a down vote brigade for anything counter to the progressive narrative whether it's Trump or Covid or Global Warming or other progressive ideas. It's a great site though and I have had some great conversations and learned a lot as long as you steer clear of the progressive agenda. Reddit is way worse. It makes hacker news look like The Wall Street Journal. There's a theory called horseshoe theory that claims that the fanatical left and right have more in common with each other than they do centrists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory