Pdq, Old Guy has started a couple of threads that were NOT political that were fun and interesting, for example the "Name The Movie" thread. Another was "Voluntary Simplicity." The rest have been nothing but political shit-stirring, drawing the very kind of responses he's been getting.   Many of his posts, and particularly with most of the threads he starts, he has displayed (as I said above and to which you took exception) a hatred of all things liberal bordering on the irrational, based on what looks very like profound ignorance (or simply ignoring facts that everyone else seems to be able to perceive) and an absolute certainty to the point of arrogance. He doesn't seem to be interesting in discussion, he just makes pronouncements.

Now here's a point to ponder. I have not found once single instance where Old Guy has posted to a music thread. This is primarily a music forum. Why, then, is he here, other than to engage in the kind of arguments he's getting?

As far as "This forum is not a place where that normal people feel comfortable anymore" is concerned, first, there is the question of what you regard as "normal people." Neo-conservatives? And then, there is the old adage about "If you can't stand the heat, then don't sit on the barbeque." Especially when Old Guy was the one who lit the barbeque in the first place.

Don Firth