Originally Posted by Sunset Poet
You return over and over, to a chimerical scenario where you get to discuss anything that you want and all the children remain perfectly behaved, and the atmosphere is productive and wonderful.

I keep repeating over and over, that 99% of the people in the world know that if they are involved in an endeavor with a specified goal such as songwriting, and the conversations are allowed to wander unfettered into politics, religion or whatever may piss some nut-ball off...then the endeavor is going to become governed by the lowest common denominator...and acrimony is inevitable.

In this specific case, a guy who lists Germany as his home in his avatar. comes onto an Indiana based songwriting site with railings against the current United States president, and expects everyone to respond cordially. That is always going to degenerate to the lowest common denominator. To beleive anything else is fantasy.

For future brevity, I will refer to this response as "the chimerical takeaway."
I get tired of writing the same obvious observation over and over again.

Well, Marty, there you go again. What exactly is your issue with Germany? I could change my location to Florida next week — would that make me a different person? For the record, I actually grew up in Bluffton, Indiana. Take a look at what you just wrote: I didn’t wander into politics or religion — I was simply talking about how we behave as a songwriting community. Yet somehow, that still set you off.