pmward wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:56 pm
The politics section literally was created just a few weeks ago... up until ~Nov 12 I left the forum entirely for 6 months due to the politics getting on my nerves. Obviously, I'm thinking of leaving again.
Yeah, I realize the Politics sub-forum was just created in early November. But even prior to that, I don't remember seeing you post very often (if at all) in any of the political threads in the Other Discussions sub-forum. Maybe I'm mistaken, but that's what I recall.
It seemed like you really jumped into the political threads for the first time starting on Nov 12 -- just three weeks ago -- yet your user profile says your Politics posts comprise over 20% of your total posts since you joined in Jan 2019. Subtracting your six-month sabbatical, that means that in just the most recent 5% of the time you've been active on this forum, you've produced over 20% of your total posts.
That's a
really big sudden burst of participation in the Politics sub-forum for someone who says that politics is getting on his nerves and who has already opted out of Politics sub-forum notifications in his user settings.
pmward wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:56 pm
Are you admitting that this is a forum only for Pro-Trump, non-analytical/quant investors, that do not have a VP? Because the fact that all people that have left or complained supposedly have common characteristics... characteristics you don't have... proves my point exactly. Would those people have left if they felt like this was an open, welcoming, non-hostile environment here?
Things in the US have become a lot more politically polarized in recent years and especially recent months. My perspective is that as a result, the forum members became politically divided largely into two groups: (1) the never-Trumpers, and (2) those who don't necessarily think that Trump is Orange Hitler.
Both groups have been fairly vocal and well-represented in recent political threads, so I don't get the sense that the voices of the never-Trumpers are being drowned in a flood of American flags and spray tan. In some threads, maybe, but not all of them. It just seems that in general, the never-Trumpers here are the ones who seem to get so fed up with heated political discussions that they choose to leave the forum permanently rather than just opting out of the Politics sub-forum, taking a short forum vacation, or maybe blocking one or two users who raise their blood pressure the most.
Since the never-Trumper members tend to emphasize decorum, I often get the sense that they expect others to compromise (e.g., "meet in the middle") for the sake of appearances and orderliness. Strong disagreement can be terribly messy, and that's very distasteful and uncomfortable to the decorum folks. By contrast, the members who emphasize policy or substance over decorum tend to attach themselves strongly to what they have determined is philosophically right or truthful and are loath to compromise on that just for the sake of "meeting in the middle." Their position is that in truth vs. falsehood and right vs. wrong, there is often no room for compromise -- integrity is an all-or-nothing proposition.
