I tried to downvote your post because of this line, but I ended up mis-clicking and upvoting, so I might as well explain myself.

I am not a Republican, I am an independent. This holier-and-smarter-than-thou attitude that seems to be mestastisizing needs to stop. Please argue your point with facts and reason, not with a "it sympathizes with viewpoint [X] and is therefore invalid." Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, and Conservatives are all guilty of this, but here on the West Coast (where the Hacker News audience predominantly resides) there is a sort of reflexive superiority complex which seems to have developed especially acutely in those on the left side of the political spectrum, in which there is little hesitation, even outside of overtly political forums, to announce that certain views are wrong simply Republicans subscribe to them as well... And of course we all know that Republicans are all about the blunt-force, black-and-white simple-minded thinking, as opposed to subtle, sophisticated, and nuance-loving Democrats.

Sorry, I'll cut my rant off early. I hope my point got across without offending anyone.

Why?

The last time I looked, nothing about history was subject to "nature". If all historians agreed that Hitler had 7 arms and flew, nothing bad would happen.

If, on the other hand, engineers decided to act as if steel was less dense than air at 1 bar, things would go wrong.

I do not work on whether a viewpoint is black and white or gray but if it represent the true map of the reality. Such explanations is nonsense to me.

and it's a silly oversimplification that has high correlation with modern republicans.

You'll need to expand your perimeter on political spectrum.

You'll also need to explain why my views is a silly oversimplification.(Err, I mean wrong.)