Thank you for the welcome!
And I’m new to FR, but I’m not new to online forums, so I’m used to people complaining about threads.
I been posting to FR since 1998. FR is not restricted to politics. In fact, political issues are but a small subset of all the discussions that are available.
You see, Conservatism is a way of life. As such, it encompasses everything. From the pets we have, to the games we play, to the way we run our lives at home with our families.
If FR were to be limited to only political discussions based on responses to main-stream media posts, FR would have died a long, long time ago.
It is true that FReepers have left this platform and set up their own forums when they were unhappy with the wide scope of discourse herein. That is how Zero Hedge and Above Top Secret got started. Never the less, Jim does a nice job trying to provide a forum for free discussion, and yes, you can from time to time get some harsh responses.
So enjoy and don’t get too hot and bothered with what others think.