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Originally Posted by Wyodiver33
The main reason that I am not fond of this thread is because I really want to keep polarizing politics out of the TFP. I don't want fights. Let other areas of the web fight. I just don't want that here. Nobody will win.
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Personally, I think the heart of politics is debate, and political debate is by definition polarizing. Either you think women should have the right to an abortion or you don't. Either you think gays should be able to marry or you don't. And if you think it, you're gonna be at polar opposites to the guy who doesn't.
There are lots of forums (forae? Fora?) under the TFP umbrella that are not polarized. If people don't want to see political debate, they aren't required to come in here. For those of us that do, our polarization, as you put it, doesn't seem to leak out to the rest of the board very much.
This thread is a rather classic example. There are people out there who actually think Palin is intelligent, and those of us who realize that she is a moron do not understand why the other side thinks what they do. There's no way to get around that, beyond passing some blanket rule of "do not debate anything in politics," at which point we may as well close the forum.