Well, what makes this place great is the people who come here. I often wish to see discussions about politics by the same people who post here.
I guess it is very difficult to achieve because politics tend to attract a lot of crazy people. So as soon as something becomes popular it will be filled with the wrong crowd.
Politics makes people crazy. They start out just normal. I have utterly vivid recollections of September 11, 2001 - the world suddenly split into idiots and people that agreed with me. (Mostly idiots, sadly.)
Huh. I didn't specify my politics at all (not that they're secret) - I was commenting on how regardless of politics, we all consider people who don't agree with us to be idiots, and the fact that communities that I had considered pretty homogeneous on 9/10/01 turned out not to be. That's universally human, and regrettable.
