I don't personally see how Mudcat has evolved into a political forum, it was always pretty political. But I certainly don't see how you can keep politics out of a music forum -- we would have to ban mention of the blues, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, the Beatles, Billie Holliday, all songs relating to gender, race, inequity, industrial action, capitalism, communism, and so on into the night of nothingness.

yours,

Peter T.