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> where you can go and exchange thoughtful ideas with considerate peers who may or may not share your political alignment, but treat you with respect.

I'll bet that this will never happen for topics like politics.

Politics is a 0 barrier to entry conversation and a maximally emotion driven discussion.

If a forum allows politics, the mod work load goes up and the forum will polarize itself. Politics is one of the natural scissor statements of the web.




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