Too much wilful ignorance (or pretend illiteracy) and racism (not just against the English) and irrationality and defence of the foregoing (which I suppose is as good an explanation of conservatives or republicans as any).   And the ubiquity of the pink and fluffy brigade, and idiots who want to be John Wayne. But there again if you go onto any of the wide-open sections of facebook look at the shit that crawls out from under stones there.

The inability to discuss certain areas of "political thought" is also a handicap. MtheGM, you DO indeed know what that is as I have messaged you about some of it and teh misuse of your name or image on other sites, so your pretence that you do not know is another aspect of trolling.

Also the serious scholars of folk music seem to have died or gone so as a folk music resource the value of this place reduces.

But it is still a good place to exchange information about folk (and not-quite-folk) events.