As a member of FR since 99, I have notice a change and it is not good..
There's no common enemy of Klintoon anymore like someone else said. Maybe things will improve with the 2008 election.
Then it is up to us who really DO care about freerepublic to have the CHUTZPAH to make a few changes ourselves, to be vigilant without becoming vigilantes, to express and assert ourselves as "eloquently" as do the more vulgar-minded and knuckle-dragging among us. I really believe, for example, that we can have open, frank, intelligent, researched and experienced (as opposed to knee-JERK and stereotyped) discussions about race, immigration, religion, etc., WITHOUT resorting to the baiting, card-playing tactics of the loony left.