That's because most of them are in basic political agreement. Naturally, if the majority all agree that Bush is Hitler and the war was for a pipeline, and so on down the party line, there will be harmony.

Translation: our political POV is different than yours. That's the bottom line.

Indeed, a fair observer looking at your output recently would conclude YOU were trolling. You can call "disagreement with a fair amount of heat" trolling. Fine. But that goes both ways. But apparently you are unable to see that the adversarial nature went both ways. Any neutral observer can easily read through these threads and see the abuse coming from your side too.

For you to paint this as one-sided trolling is to lose any real credibility.

No, what we really have here are a majority who enjoy the fact that they basically agree with each other, and want to use the banning mechanism to stifle dissent. Of course, that's the moderators' privilege, but don't pretend for one second it would be anything other than that.

Just as I said: you can't handle substantive disagreement, so you clamor for the moderators to ban.