Political discourse is an "attack vector" now? Dystopian.
This is the kind of delusional thinking that powers most of the American hysteria over Russia. "I can't accept the reality that President Trump appealed to lots of people, so it must be the result of external manipulation of the stupids".
Occam's Razor says: maybe people who post on HN like to keep their political speech separated from their technical speech, the latter which can be done under their real name? That's how I do it. This account posts to technical stories sometimes but mostly to stories on social issues. I have another which is used mostly for technical stories.
The reason is simple enough: just look at the prior story I posted comments on ("At liberal tech companies...").
In the current atmosphere, especially in the west, there is absolute hysteria and a general mental breakdown going on amongst the sort of globalist/elitist population that thinks Trump is the anti-Christ and Brexit is Revelations. This is an atmosphere in which people find some random bot-driven Twitter account that publishes politically conservative stories and label it as a Russian plot on the basis of no evidence whatsoever ... and people start debating "why is Russia doing this?" instead of asking where's the evidence.
It is a witch burning atmosphere. Trump and Brexit didn't happen because of Russia, except maybe in the sense that Hillary Clinton adopting a policy of starting a hot war between America and Russia turned voters away from her and towards the anti-Russia-war Trump. These things happened because of mismanagement and an attitude of "we can't hear you" towards large segments of the population from the sort of people who are attracted to politics.
Now they've been forced to progress from "first they ignore you" and "then they laugh at you", they've moved on to "then they fight you". Their weapon of choice being an attempt at disenfranchisement through claims that anyone who disagrees with their agenda doesn't really disagree. They've just been reprogrammed through Facebook ads bought by those evil Russians. Once you take out the malign mind-control of a shadowy international conspiracy, Clinton would definitely have won!