I have gone back and reviewed a number of past pages on political talk and find political talk works best when members have a reasoned and unemotional response and most importantly stays on message concerning the thread's topic.

As many of you know the political forum was closed when a few posters got out of hand.

A few years later TOTV decided that enough members spoke to the fat that they issued the political forum.

TOTV then re-instituted Political Talk with a template that 1) has given every poster the name "Guest"2) removed the personal message option 3) id not allow editing nor deleting.

While some of these limitation are annoying they apparently were right because we still have among us members who just don't understand the benefit of rational debate.

Long ago I suggested we ignore those type of post and posters, most agreed and indeed it can be difficult at times to ignore them.

So I am going to make a reaffirmation to myself to stay only on point and counter point only to reasonable comments.

Another way of looking at this is I am not going to waste my time swatting at flies when I can metaphorically leave the room

Personal Best Regards: