This is, by far, the most political site I go to. The top comments are often politicized and the top stories are typical social media "outrage" stories.
I think you're painting a picture of HN that really doesn't exist, but did probably long ago. HN now suffers from the 'eternal September' many popular forums do. Techy forum participants are often high school and college students with far left anti-US views common in youth. Its no surprise that these viewpoints are the dominant narrative here.
I imagine there are people who downvote all politics, but they are clearly a minority here. The downvote button is just a agree/disagree button in practice and shows an obvious political bias.
Your the one creating the "eternal september" discussion in this thread. You take a story about international trade and make into a left-right issue, promoting your pet opnion that Europe have moved to far to the left. Then you turn the whole thread into meta by complaining how HN is turning into reddit (something so common it even is warned against in the guidelines).
Not only are your comments utterly predictable, and therefor uninteresting, they are factually incorrect. It's often the right wing that want to protect the local market. The US just forced China to limit subsidies on exports [0]. The UKs exit of the EU is largely a result of the left wing not being able to convince their votes, in favor of right wing conservatives.
That Europe has turned to the left as a result of the financial crisis is also not substantiated [1][2]. The few countries that have in recent years are have all been forced to enact (right wing) economic reforms. Including Greece, France and Portugal. Which is why people are protesting, not because they have suddenly become more leftist.
If you think HN has become leftist it's very likely that you are simply older than most people on HN. Young people today, whether they consider themselves left or right, are forced to care about things like housing, healthcare, employment and other issues that were previously considered left wing because society is changing.
We must not be reading the same threads because I don't see anything remotely "anti-US" when reading HN. It almost sounds like you are accusing us all of being unamerican, which is one of the sillier political epithets history has provided us.
What I do see is a realization that the US is a fairly small minority of the global population, and that globalization and automation are stampeding across labor-based economies, and discussions of solutions to the resulting societal problems.
This is, by far, the most political site I go to. The top comments are often politicized and the top stories are typical social media "outrage" stories.
I think you're painting a picture of HN that really doesn't exist, but did probably long ago. HN now suffers from the 'eternal September' many popular forums do. Techy forum participants are often high school and college students with far left anti-US views common in youth. Its no surprise that these viewpoints are the dominant narrative here.
I imagine there are people who downvote all politics, but they are clearly a minority here. The downvote button is just a agree/disagree button in practice and shows an obvious political bias.