[notspanishflu]

Are you kidding? Do you know how a democracy works?

[dang]

You've been repeatedly violating the site guidelines by posting uncivilly, unsubstantively, using this site for political battle, and generally ruining this and other threads. We ban accounts that do that regardless of how good your cause is or how wrong someone else is. We have to, because otherwise this place will destroy itself.

I'm not going to ban you because you've used HN as intended before this recent political crisis. But it's dismaying that I had to look back through hundreds of comments to determine that.

I understand how emotional these topics can be, but would you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post like this to HN again?

[ryanlol]

It works in a manner which encourages secession for regions which generally hold distinctly different political opinions than the rest of the country.