So far so good...
I meant it when I said I was not starting this thread to be a political circus. I may be naive in thinking we can actually self regulate. I will be the first one to PM Randy to lock it down if this goes sideways. There are some on HT who seem to have that as their goal sometimes. They should go somewhere else, IMHO. There should be a metric for how many threads a user has hijacked as grounds for ejection. I may be closer to the metric threshold than I really want to know.
SCOTUS discussions are relevant to the mission of Hunt Talk in that their rulings can effect, 2A, ESA, Public Lands, The NA Model, etc. Having said that, I strongly doubt any of the Justices have their clerks reading HT to check the public sentiment. If we as individuals or as part of like minded groups wait until anyone in government asks our opinion, we have already lost.
HT has a political element because there are issues which require us to participate in the political process. That means researching our positions and contacting government officials to voice our wishes. I had written both my Senators to give them my opinion on the confirmation of Justice Barrett. Commentary without participation is Narcissism. If these raucous threads drive us off the sideline and into action on the issues in the HT "Why", they serve their purpose.
As such, political threads are part of the "full experience" of the Hunttalk forums. Hunt Talk is way more than "Grip and Grins", advice, and hunting stories.
I subscribe to the idea that no one ever changed their world view based on a social media post. Having said that - it is good that many viewpoints are voiced, so long as they are civil. If a debate does not have more than one position represented, it is not a debate but a caucus.
It only takes one post to drive a political thread into the ditch. Each thread we create and post write should always have
@Big Fin's "Why" in mind.
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