You said: “ And so our hopes have been pinned on getting the right people elected and on taking control of our government.”
No, our hopes have not been pinned on that. But this was a political article, and therefore the discussion about this article in a political vein.
At bottom politics answer the question, “how shall we live” thus are about morality. There is no such thing as a “neutral” body of knowledge distinct from morality, that notion is a Marxist Frankfurt School invention crafted to replace this nation’s Judeo-Christian moral law and thinking with socialistic thinking and inverted morality (political correctness) disguised as “politics.”
Americans have been propagandized so effectively that they themselves serve as gate-keepers (censors), as you are trying to do when you say, “But this was a political article, and therefore the discussion about this article in a political vein.”
Read: Cultural Marxism
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html