""Why not just not read a thread you don't want to read?"
Life's not like that
Some of us start these threads and are interested in what they cover - along comes a troll so we walk away from it ?"

It seems some people are just not 'wired' to walk away... hence my comment about the cartoon saying " "But I can't go to bed yet... there's something wrong on the Internet!") "

As long as Backwoodsman's suggestion about ignoring is..umm... ignored, the problem is literally unsolveable except by closing the site OR banning everyone who disagrees with anyone else. Nice set of options, hmm?

I used to debate religion vs. science with you-know-who. No one won. I debated guns... same result. I debated astrology... same result. Politics is the same. Everyone with an opinion wishes to defend their opinion and at some point, someone moves to an opinion about the character or intelligence of their opponent- and off we go.

I have **ignored** the astrology, religion and gun debates for several years now, and my typing finger(s) appreciate the break! And USA politics is beyond a minefield now... in many ways, so is UK politics.

? "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.."?