"Outright immediate shutdown of anything ever related to politics" is not at all an accurate description of HN, nor is your "dominate the front page". If you know of a fine supply of deeply interesting stories out there, by all means please submit them.
"Links which are often only tangentially related to hacking" are not only not off-topic here, they're so on-topic as to be celebrated at the very beginning of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Your phrasing rather suggests that you want the very sort of flamewars and partisan battles that we're specifically excluding. If so, HN may not be the website you're looking for. Not all internet forums need to be the same, and I don't see why this one shouldn't preserve its mandate.
"Links which are often only tangentially related to hacking" are not only not off-topic here, they're so on-topic as to be celebrated at the very beginning of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Your phrasing rather suggests that you want the very sort of flamewars and partisan battles that we're specifically excluding. If so, HN may not be the website you're looking for. Not all internet forums need to be the same, and I don't see why this one shouldn't preserve its mandate.