Political Affiliation Biases

That's a common misconception, but it is entirely a function of the political passions of the observer, leading to false feelings of generality. Observers with opposite passions see precisely the opposite—and I do mean precisely.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870

Because positions on the topic are highly correlated with political affiliation

The number of cases to examine is small enough to make it difficult to extract a trend, and the nature of the question is very subjective, but my best attempt at an observation is that the described behavior is one of the many personality/cognitive faults that people on both sides of politics exhibit in roughly equal measures. I think an observation of a strong bias in one direction here might be due to other factors (e.g. biases that affect one's exposure to these things).

People can have different political leanings on different subjects

The Gallup link above does show differences based on political orientation.

You be aware of this study indicating more diversity of opinion on the right vs left.https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjso....

I suggest you check out the political compass. It’s a reliable indicator of political pref over time. We used it a lot in my public policy grad program

See? The topic spurred a reply with a link to an article about a politician. The way politics works in the US currently, no matter what that article says, some people agree with it, and some people will not believe it.I’m not positing an opinion on China - merely analyzing the voting tendencies of the HN community.

Exactly – if anything, research suggests that there might be some underlying mechanism affecting both ends of the political spectrum. I found this to be a very interesting read on the subject:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...

Interesting analysis, seems to have some explanatory value for the current state of US politics.