05-24-2024, 10:44 PM
(05-24-2024, 07:39 PM)KKLoco Wrote: Considering the name of the website ‘DenyIgnorance.com’, would we not be doing ourselves an injustice by having political topic forums?
Speaking for myself only, I’ve received about 98% of my daily news from ATS. What is a good portion of daily news - things that affect us personally. Unfortunately, most of those deal with politics.
I did not come to ATS for anything political related. However, in my older and wiser years, politics are where the current conspiracies reside. Think about’Disclosure’ if that ever will happen. Where would it come from? = Governmental politicians. It sucks, but it is what it is.
limiting that discussion on this site is a huge mistake, IMHO.
The problem is that it's NOT discussion.
It's op-ed, it's memes, it's music vids, it's name-calling, it's title-slinging... nothing of discourse in there. A number of us do try to engage, but it's hard to have a dialogue when you're being called names and accused of being commie/socialist/snowflake/etc (hop over to some of the closed topics on ATS about politics and the Mud Pit and you'll see how toxic it got.)
It would be interesting to have a "dueling op-eds" thing (rather like the debate forum) or something similar. But a free-form political arena...? Nope. Didn't work last time and unlikely to work in a new setting.
