Thank you Mr. Robinson for all you do to give refuge to J Random Conservative and for supporting civil discourse on the pressing matters of the day. I typically cut through the noise to learn what I can every single day. That noise had become nearly impossible to cut through. I suspect that situation will dramatically improve. Bravo.
Except you will only hear a limited discussion and "civil discourse on the pressing matters of the day." The perception you come away with will be biased and slanted because many people here have been bullied and hounded and zotted for simply, civilly stating a political opinion that veers outside of a small but aggressive-attack groupthink.
Bravo?? Really? To me, it just makes FR that much less reflective of my fellow American conservatives and that much more reflective of an angry minority that insists it's a majority. I expect that by Nov 2012 the only folks here were Romney supporters, and when Romney lost, it came as a shock even though hundreds of your fellow FReepers here tried to clue you in and when they were treated with hostility, they left, leaving a balance who presented a one-side and distorted picture of where actual conservatives stood. Where the real balance stood on election day, unlike at FR because they'd been shooed away, was "Screw Romney and the donkey he rode in on -- I'm not wasting my vote on electing something I despise."
So all of FR's attempts to force the issue, failed. People's opinions remained the same -- they just stopped expressing them here.
It's only January, and it's beginning to happen again. And you're saying "Bravo."
Keep kidding yourself, right into slavery.