Is this a #metapolitics or #politics post?
Elsenet a fellow I respect very much lamented that his political posts don't get near the traction of his others--strange and alarming in a country that may be drifting toward dictatorship.
I know political debates often get unpleasant. But not long ago, a top political question was, is it OK to keep people enslaved? And we didn't answer it with politics, so we ended up answering it with civil war.
I prefer political flamewars to actual wars.