I thought ycombinator tried to stay away from political stuff? I've been around for years and that was usually the case. Why is there a popular post about drug addiction and the response from "Washington"? This isn't tech related.

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

I'll quote the guidelines here:

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."

Most comments here are political. Did I miss a blog post that says to be politicans?