"Maybe it has something to do with longtime Freepers being called Nazis, pro-death, etc."
Exactly.
It's pretty sad. Someone posted (I can't remember who) that without a common "enemy", Freepers turned on each other on these Schiavo threads with the same energy and intensity that was formerly reserved for John Kerry and Hillary.
It's a shame...
Well, you'll have some of that. As Harry Truman also once said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Folks who cannot engage in high intensity matters here, without gettting their knickers in a knot, prolly just need to stay in the numerous canteen threads, (after becoming a Monthly Donor, of course.)