I have posted in the past, when that horrid Political thread existed, that other music ONLY sites had rules against political threads. There are places for those types of discussions and PA is not one of them, never should have been. Policing of a thread like that is impossible, since a MOD would have to be 100% neutral and remove all the negativity, that is asking a lot IMO.
If you could, go back to the first few pages of that thread and you will see the comments, for the most part most of it was extremely negative. Darn right ugly, believe me I know!!
Talking about lyrics, feelings and even the stance an artist or band has on politics or religion is fine since that to me would be in the context of musical art. But flat out talking about politics just to talk about politics is never a good thing, never ends good at least.
I for one am 100% GLAD!!!!!! That PA finally made this call, it is 5 years too late but better late than never I say.
There are a gazillion sites to go discuss your political thoughts, good or bad......but please not here. This site needs to be fun again.