Reply #20: Yeah, they ended up shuttering the political forum--now there's no partisan discussions.

[TheWraith]

There can still be discussions of, say, how government rules work, or the odds of a given bill passing. And you still get a solid feel for where some of the people stand. But it's not allowed to go to terms of "gun grabbing Democrats" or anything like that. Most of the posters there actually tend to have more of a genuine libertarian base, although there's some right wing morons as well. And, as you say, a few people who are obviously liberals/Democrats.