While I would agree parent comment lacks depth, I have also reached the same conclusion.

I'm from the US and left for Europe some time ago; seeing the difference in cultures and how countries and cities are run inspired me to reflect a lot on what we were taught growing up in the US, and as a result of that reflect I've gotten very skeptical of anything promoting American Exceptionalism; what we learned in schools was very much so a Disney version of American History, and at least in my experience, advocating for American exceptionalism especially when it comes to the members of the original early US government is usually an indicator to treat with suspicion.

I was also confused why this was on HN, as reading the article, it is very much so fanciful in nature, focusing purely on the sacrifice and struggles of the member of early congress. Nothing wrong with interest in this, certainly even if the original members of congress basically just copied from existing philosophies and such, in some ways it's still respectable that they soldiered on. But there is a lot more to the stories, and this article read to me more like just a love poem to the US' early government members. It was like being in 5th grade American History again)) cute but harmless I guess since I know better.

But I was curious, why on HN? Certainly it's not for the article content, as I'm not even convinced this isn't just AI written. So I wondered, "maybe it's the org itself? Are we supposed to recognize the author?", so I wanted to know who the author was.

As I get it, the author is a Christian musician and this is their self-promo site; nothing wrong so far, a little annoying to see all the plugs for their albums and actions, but hey, it's their site, so I shouldn't be surprised. But checking further, I can see that the author/musician is fairly active in both US and Christian politics, and is a fair supporter of the US right; anything involving a person active in US politics definitely makes me a little interested in what they're really doing, since it's nearly weekly if not daily that there is a new scandal in the US political sphere from all parties and even the most innocent. Combined with the article basically being US "Founding Father worship" in my opinion, I got quite wary of the person and wondered even more why this is on HN. (not even an interesting article frankly speaking) Seeing charities being pumped heavily on the site, combined with the fact that many popular charities in the US are not so great or used for scams by well off persons, I'm definitely curious who this person is and their history, since for some reason they're being spammed on a tech new aggregator site with an article that has nothing to do with tech.

In checking for controversies for this person, luckily looks like the worst controversy they have is purely in the Christian sphere about endorsing some specific translation of the Bible? Hard to tell, but at least it calms the alarms a little.

Granted this is a wall of text for what was about 30 seconds of reading and checking, but I hope you can understand the though process and why an article like this might trigger some alarms in people; the article is shared in a strange place, has little content except praising American Exceptionalism and hard work of the original government, it's not clear who this person is or why we should care about their article of praise, and at face value, and they're aligned with a political group that is rather contentious for their (now determined) illegal actions on last elections.