I apologize for the snideness of my reply, since there is precedent for talk of politics being discouraged even though it's always open season on religion. It had slipped my mind.

I removed my earlier vote on the grandparent. I objected to the 'snideness + implications I don't think hit the mark' combination and certainly not for condemning general injunctions on topics. Some politics doesn't seem to damage the site as a whole and the thought of people getting to arbitrarily reject topics is seriously 'Ugh'.

In this case I do actually think that some mind killing is in place. People here (at least those for whom the politics is relevant) do seem to have a strong position on what the right political decision is. I do perceive that interfering with their judgement on the abstract idea that is the nominal topic of the post. To the 'big picture' of our instincts it is just a small patch of territory on a social battlefield, a fact which I think we can see in play.