Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's a tedious internet genre that degrades the forum and in the end just burns it to a crisp. We're trying to stave that off here, if possible (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...).

I'm sure you can make your substantive points thoughtfully—can you please do that instead of name-calling and fulminating?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I just had to ask you about this not that many posts ago. If you wouldn't mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking the intended spirit of this site more to heart, we'd appreciate it. You're welcome here, and we don't need you to change your views, but we do need you to stick to the rules.

Toning down would probably prevent your post from being flagged.

Being right and being able to bring it across in a non-offensive way are two different shoes.

Of course he avoids discussion of any topics with a direct material impact on working class people and instead engages in the same “culture war” crap he’s trying to rail against.

Pundits be pundits – through the process of claiming that there is a perception of "X" they try to engender perception "X".

The irony is you are arguing the same point as him, but took it to heart in some odd agressive way.

Cheaper healthcare and worker's rights are universal left wing qualities.

The isolation he is pointing out is that instead of these principles, most discussion has been captured by fringe issues which alienate more people than they attract.