I post in here to provide information and opinions.
How about you?
Same.
Also, this forum gives me a convenient place to exchange and debate views with MAGA members, Trump supporters, conservatives and others. Face-to-face in our red county, where I am deeply involved in community affairs, an unspoken truce of sorts exists. In our city affairs, civic organizations, and businesses, people disagree on politics like you and I disagree here on EO. But in real life, we avoid the hot topics in the interests of getting things done, prospering in business, maintaining decency, and serving the greater good.
In our community, we drink the same water, share the same roads, rely on the same police force, preserve the same beach, struggle with the same homeless people, grieve the same fentanyl deaths, interact with the same immigrants, support the same schools, etc. At the community level we do what we do to improve our shared quality of life. Sadly, the higher we go in the political level, the more heated things become. EO gives me the ability to have an open debate on the "hot" issues, without degrading our real-world quality of life where I live and work.
To be sure, there are outspoken hotheads who speak out and shout out in public on the hot topics. These are fringe people who tend to show up in the public forum time of certain meetings and the occasional editorial in the newspaper. You can sometimes see them in costume on street corners when they decide to do that. Sometimes they run of office and they ALWAYS lose because they are well known but not well respected by the voters. They love the hot topics. They love putting down their opponents. But they never seem to figure out that in real life, at the local level where everyone shares community interests, decency, working with others instead of against them, and focusing on the common good, is the more effective strategy.
Finally, I enjoy participating here on EO because it gives me insights into the hearts and minds of MAGA and others. By interacting here, I can better understand the views of my real-life friends and neighbors who also wear red hats and fly FJB and Rambo-Trump flags outside their homes. And I can do that without the trouble of setting them off in an angry rage by asking why they do what they do.