Ok, we've put that edit in. But please don't drop partisan tangents into HN comments. It's basically trolling, as you can see by the destructive effects on this thread (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14277404) and, even with the edit, mars your otherwise fine comment.

This is why reasonable, rational people are losing and will continue to keep losing. Because we accept calling Trump unscrupulous and incompetent as a partisan opinion when it is actually clearly a statement of fact based on ample amounts of evidence.

There are certain topics that destroy otherwise rational discussions.

You know this. We all know this. So why bring it up in an unrelated thread?

All it does is damage the quality of conversation.

OP here. In response to your question, I was seizing on a well-known phenomenon (voters responding to a hollow jobs promise) to make an illustrative comparison to my thesis, another situation that evokes similar behavior.

To me, it was like being in a thread about trees and saying "Trees are green, you know, like money." The "like money" part, was just a comparison.