[JohnTHaller]

Political pieces are generally considered off-topic, especially opinion pieces: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There's always been the odd liberal or conservative biased pieces that get posted to HN over the 11+ years I've been here. But there's been a ton of conservative pieces lately and they often seem to be from newer HN accounts. It seems similar to some of the patterns seen in some of the subreddits I subscribe to.

[bradleyjg]

This is the most ideological time of my life (I’m in my 40s). Every non trivial thread on HN has comments that could be fairly characterized as political in some way.

My real world experience is not quite that extreme but it’s certainly more so than it used to be, particularly in any gathering that includes twenty-somethings.

Maybe the 60s were like this, I’d be interested to hear a comparison from someone that lived through them.