For me personally, i don't feel the need to get in a heated discussion about certain old favorites, like abortion, because it's been done, and i don't have anything to add, and i doubt there's much to get out of it. My interest in discussing politics on the internet is waning, mainly because i'm super busy and partly because i get my kicks elsewhere both on the tfp and off.
For other issues- a lot of the action in the politics forum was in reference to the war in iraq, and other typical conservative-liberal bones of contention, and between prowar conservative-y folk and antiwar-liberal-y folk. Ever since the last election there has been a curious silence from most of the prowar conservative-y folk on the tfp, which is possibly representative of the nationwide trend towards viewing the war in an unfavorable light.
Those discussions still exist in other places, but they mostly consist of the types of back-and-forth that tends to get discouraged here, i.e. belligerent and confrontational. I don't know, maybe in some ways political discussions tend to resemble street fights and the tfp is more akin to a boxing ring?
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