Comment by coffeemaniac

That you would contrast "gun nuts" with modern leftists already tells me you probably don't have a meaningful relationship with many of us -- we love guns. There's really too much diversity of thought on the left to consistently characterize it in this way, and there's very rarely an issue where there even is a definitive "leftist" take.

While this isn't the case for far-right arguments, I also wouldn't characterize far-right as "braindead." They're usually arguments crafted very specifically to appeal to a subset of people who already aren't experiencing much distress at our nation's political trajectory. This is why these arguments consistently appeal to HN readers.