You can't really escape it. For the last 8 years it was economic stagnation for the vast majority. For a small minority - they were intermediaries in giving corporate money to landlords - talked with a london based friend today - no matter how much you make the rent increases absorb any rise in income and you always have 500 GBP at the end of the month as disposable. And we have a select few that won big.
Right now every demographic is afraid and insecure for variety of reasons and they wrongly see the November election as crucial. So partisanship is all they have left to express their frustration and anger. So it becomes omnipresent.
Understood, but I wish it wasn't present on HN which is generally above such mud slinging.
The story has absolutely nothing to do with the election, and there is no reason to believe that the woman who reported Menzio was a Trump supporter, and yet the Washington Times, taking its cue from Menzio's Facebook comments, chose to spin it as an indictment of Trump.
In short, it is effectively a partisan political article, and shouldn't be posted to HN for that reason.
Right now every demographic is afraid and insecure for variety of reasons and they wrongly see the November election as crucial. So partisanship is all they have left to express their frustration and anger. So it becomes omnipresent.