[EdFNJ]

Hey folks ... simple answer. If you want political discussion start your own political forum. There are dozens of free and very low price software packages and websites (Discord for one) or even Facebook that can easily be configured as you want. You can then go off and see how easy it is to run it without being hijacked by wackos from all sides. You just need to provide hosting. Just keep it out of here. This is not "the press", it's a privately owned forum and there is no "right to free (uncensored) speech" here.

I remember the old supposedly anonymous "political" section here when we moved down here 3 1/2 years ago. It was disgusting. It was racist, misogynous, vile and any other adjective you can think of. People THOUGHT they were anonymous but, I guess due to some bug in the config here, when it was read using an phone app like TAP-A-TALK the actual user names showed up. It was quite interesting to see who was behind those posts. Many messages from that forum can be read using "The Internet Archives" aka "Wayback Machine" with a little effort. It became quite scary to see some of the stuff that was written here and especially knowing who posted it. Luckily those sites don't "unmask" the posters.