[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

You mentioned debate in post #27.

Is FR really a debate site anymore? Since the goal is to "replace as many Democrats as possible", has FR given up the idea of debate, and instead become solely a place for Republican activism?

I only ask because the admin moderators seem to relentlessly expunge any posts that express a difference of opinion, thus stifling any debate whatsoever.

And, of course, Darth Sidious was banned because he had the gall to vote for a Democrat (who, in his opinion, was the better candidate). (I also admittedly don't know the whole story.)

Could you please address why the moderators are stifling any differences of opinion. Is it because debate is no longer the goal, while Republican activism is? Perhaps activism was always the goal, but at one time debate was allowed. Now - debate (with differences of opinion) is frowned on, because it doesn't advance activism.

Could you please address this? Thank you.

[Jim Robinson]

The debate goes on 24 hours per day seven days per week.

[Jim Robinson]

Darth was banned for acting like a jerk.

[Jim Robinson]

We delete threads that are posted by the DU trolls, the tinfoil hat trolls, the anti-American trolls, the AFer trolls, etc., etc. If you can't live with that, then you might consider joining a different forum.

[Publius6961]

Could you please address why the moderators are stifling any differences of opinion. Is it because debate is no longer the goal, while Republican activism is?

I have noticed no stiffling of debate whatsoever. And I am here regularly.
Perhaps you are focusing on the wrong threads?
Or maybe you infer criticism when only differences of opinion are expressed.

Now the other aspect of this is allowing DNC propagandist free space here. Life is too short. In this case I do hope that J Robinson stiffles those turkeys relentlessly.
Even the ones posting crap as "criticism".

[metesky]

IIRC, Darth was actively campaigning on this site for a liberal Clintinoid. He gets no pity from me.

[DouglasKC]

Is FR really a debate site anymore? Since the goal is to "replace as many Democrats as possible", has FR given up the idea of debate, and instead become solely a place for Republican activism?

I never considered FreeRepublic a "debate" site. It is an island in an ocean of liberal pap. A place one can go to ridicule and destroy leftist ideas and policies.