Hello. Even as a recent joiner I have already found the help and advice given by forum members to be really helpful. All has been offered in a friendly, polite and thoughtful manner. Excellent.
I can’t say the same about Politics. When I look at ‘New Posts’ and see the titles of the threads about politics I fall into a state of depression. Not actually fall, but you will get the meaning. It’s almost all super critical with content that appears to be largely written by those who already have fixed negative views about the UK government , who dont appear to live in the UK.
Thats OK, I cannot really object to that, but I would rather not have to read. Not even read the titles to avoid falling again.
It has made me think twice about continuing to use the forum.
So my question is am I able to block a category so I dont see anything about it at all? That would bring happiness all around.
But I wouldn’t be too hasty. I suspect that people are becoming more and more extreme in their political views, and that an important reason is that we’re using social media to focus more and more on opinions we agree with, and losing awareness of other points of view. And that this makes it more and more difficult to get a consensus on political issues. And that that is really dangerous for democracy. I think we need to keep a degree of respect for those we disagree with. I can always be wrong!
