This is the most sensible post in this thread. A good example is the user rayiner being down voted for an opposing opinion down further in the thread. He has no

This is the most sensible post in this thread. A good example is the user rayiner being down voted for an opposing opinion down further in the thread. He has not trolled, he has just made an argument that people disagreed with and he is being down voted. The political discussions on HN have become a pretty one sided affair (even though it is a side I for the most part agree with) and a net negative as a whole.