OP was ostensibly making a completely unrelated point. The word "need" was referring to the relationship between the original topic of discussion and the snarky aside that OP dropped into it. There was no need for there to be a political component to make that point. It didn't add anything to the discussion. Obviously people are downvoting my comment, so people don't think that I was contributing to the discussion either, but I thought it was worth a shot to try to discourage the kind of comments that I believe degrade online discussions. I think I made my point in a pretty civil fashion, and that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned.