I symphathise with that, but HN is a US-centric liberal echo chamber when it comes to political issues, so everything that got to do with government, intelligence and surveillance is automatically labelled 'evil'.
It's common for ideologically committed users to see HN as being aligned against them. But this perception is in the eye of the beholder, i.e. it's a cognitive bias. Plenty of comments make opposite claims about HN; the difference isn't in HN but in what the commenter identifies with.
Edit: I've written about this in plenty of places: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=.... Not all of those posts are about perceptions of political bias; some are about perceptions of astroturfing. But the two phenomena are variations of the same thing.
