That impression, at least with respect to politics, is in my view because HN readers have an extraordinarily narrow range of education and are therefore generally uninformed about politics, history, philosophy, or the arts. They can't effectively engage in serious discussions on those topics without descending into chaos from their general state of intellectual disarray.
If your comments in this thread are a reliable indication of the way you've expressed your viewpoints in other threads on HN, it suggests an alternative theory as to why you keep getting downvoted.
