Quote Originally Posted by bu villain View Post
Even though I disagree with your characterization of what politics should be (i.e., citizens vs the government they voted for), that would not disuade me from participating. It would simply be another topic for discussion. It is the personal insults against forum members that turns me off the most. I understand with passionate discussion, people can lose their cool but it has become a dominant part of the forum, not just an occasional distraction. Honestly it gets so juvenile, at times it's not much more than pages of people calling each other stupid with a bunch of political jargon thrown in.
Sounds like what happens in the actual government.