Yes. What has happened here? I’ve become more of a lurker than an active participant these days (and some think that’s a good thing, as I obviously can’t take the “heat”).
FreeRepublic used to be the place where you would have, yes, passionate discourse, but discourse that lead with a salient point, rather than a punch somewhere below the belt.
That's because you stomp kittens to death with your jackboots, fascist.