The people you're worried about are all happily typing away, posting juvenile comments on the story I submitted to politics.reddit.com yesterday. They have no motivation to come here. I think news.yc is safe regardless of what the editors decide about political stories.
P.S. My second sentence is a recursive joke. I didn't mean it.
I was about to say that, myself. I'm glad you didn't actually fall into that hypocritical trap. Nice joke, though :-)