Thanks to all for responses. I find good/interesting input from all, especially like buffalo's point about having the political forum and maybe that will help politics from bleeding over into the BDSM forums - great point!

A lot of my original post did point out that i come here for the BDSM dialogue. And when the political forum overtakes the BDSM forum in posts, it is kinda sad. There are about 9 billion other sites where one can rant & rave "discuss - He he!" over politics, so this was my "safe place."

The other point/s i didn't mention was that i do hate that this country (USA) has become so divided that people can't tolerate another person having a different option - heaven forbid! I may think they're crazy, but they have every right to their opinion & not have me yell at them & tell them they are "Stupid" for having a differing opinion.

Secondly, how often has anyone on the left or right had any success in bringing them over to the other side? 0.00001% of the time - maybe?! So what is the point of the back & forth over "you're stupid, or no you're stupid?!"

Thanks again for the feedback. So now it's my $0.04! And i'll guess i'll just ignore the politics section unless it relates to BDSM. BTW it seems like Cheyenne is doing fine in moderating.