It's about considerably more than politics. It's about the fact that a position of responsibility is about being balanced and not 'passing judgement', something that HLP severely wobbled on for quite a long time. I left because, rather than simply take action to stop a confrontation, it was instead decided that a decision should be made about who was 'right' and who was 'wrong' based on assumptions, so rather than simply stopping the problem, it was instead chosen to exacerbate it.
Seems to me the HLP does need to think seriously about what it expects from GD, because trolling isn't defined by the fact that it doesn't agree with what a Moderator 'thinks' the truth is, it's an action, not a position, political or otherwise.
-Flipside.